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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the "nation's first federal civil rights law" (6) enacted?

2. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881?

3. What event "compelled many Northern white people to acknowledge the humanity of black people" (65)?

4. Gates asserts in Part Two that "adherents to polygenesis" (57) turned to what element of society?

5. Supporters of monogenesis and polygenesis alike are said to have ignored the research findings of whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the cause of a particular disease Cartwright defined and his suggested treatment.

2. Which experiences of Abraham Lincoln's does Gates cite as causing his ideas about race to evolve?

3. Describe the monogenecists' two different explanations for the dark color of African Americans' skin.

4. What were the qualities associated with the Old Negro, according to Gates?

5. For what purpose does Gates draw a parallel between Reconstruction and a particular modern event?

6. How did Louis Agassiz's views change over time and why is that change significant?

7. Discuss one disease identified within Samuel Cartwright's 1851 publication entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" within De Bow's Review.

8. How does Gates go about interweaving the two themes of healing and justice?

9. Discuss a time when Gates used of the second person point of view and the effect this use has on the reader.

10. Which amendments to the United States Constitution forever changed the status of African Americans?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine how Gates, Jr. goes about connecting personal experience with the arguments put forth within Stony the Road. How does Gates, Jr. accomplish this goal and how does this goal relate to the overarching themes of the text?

Essay Topic 2

What is the ultimate purpose behind Gates, Jr.’s inclusion of visual images within Stony the Road?

Essay Topic 3

How does Gates, Jr. employ the use or rejection of fallacy within Stony the Road and how does the inclusion of fallacy help Gates, Jr. to prove particular points made within the text?

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