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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chains of Being: The Black Body and the White Mind.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what year was Du Bois's sociological study entitled The Philadelphia Negro published?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1833.

4. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?
(a) Religion.
(b) Astrology.
(c) Science.
(d) Folklore.

5. In what year did the Plessy vs. Ferguson case lead to widespread segregation?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1866.
(d) 1896.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade was the image of the "New Negro" (127) put forth by African Americans in order to counteract the effects of "representational oppression" (127)?

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

3. What role did Gates serve in the creation of the PBS series about the period of Reconstruction?

4. In what capacity was Louis Agassiz hired by a particular institution of higher learning in 1846?

5. In what time period did a particular physiologist develop the pseudoscience of phrenology?

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