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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface and Part One, Antislavery/Antislave.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881?
(a) Jefferson Davis.
(b) Edward A. Pollard.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

2. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?
(a) D.W. Griffith.
(b) Elia Kazan.
(c) Cecil B. DeMille.
(d) Victor French.

3. The film entitled The Birth of a Nation was released in what year?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1942.

4. In what year did Frederick Douglass publish his first autobiography?
(a) 1834,
(b) 1845.
(c) 1853,
(d) 1870.

5. What role did Gates serve in the creation of the PBS series about the period of Reconstruction?
(a) Writer.
(b) Producer.
(c) Guest speaker.
(d) Host.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gates states in the preface that the title of Stony the Road is taken from what type of artistic work?

2. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?

3. The Lost Cause myth developed by Edward A. Pollard was fundamentally based on what, according to Gates?

4. Gates names which university as the place where the "kernel of the idea" (xv) for Stony the Road formed?

5. At least what percentage of the African American members of constitutional conventions in the South in 1867 and 1868 became victims of Ku Klux Klan-inflicted violence?

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