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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 did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?

2. Which term was synonymous with miscegenation in the post-Civil War era?

3. Phrenology argued for a connection between mental capacity and what?

4. The Dunning School of thinkers believed that what element had been the cause of Reconstruction's failure?

5. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?

Short Essay Questions

1. What aspect of the New Negro movement did Gates initially find problematic?

2. In what way did Charles Carroll equate evolution with atheism?

3. What is the significance of the years 1865 through 1877?

4. Explain the significance of Charles Darwin's cousin Francis Galton.

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

6. What two events does Gate use in order to mark the beginning and climax of the Redemption era?

7. How did the institution of slavery make contact with the western part of North America?

8. In Part Two: The Old Negro, Gates explores the way in which the ideology of white supremacy was transmitted using which four distinct discourses?

9. What two events led to the shift in Agassiz's worldview?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Gates, Jr. use sensory details in order to strengthen the text’s messages? Discuss at least two passages that include the use of sensory details and pull quotes from these passages to support your claim.

Essay Topic 2

In what way does Gates, Jr. utilize irony within the text? Discuss at least three uses of irony within Stony the Road and explore each instance's connection to larger themes contained within the piece.

Essay Topic 3

How is the theme of hypocrisy treated within Gates, Jr.’s text and with which of the text’s messages does the theme closely connect?

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