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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1869.

2. In what type of matter did the Freedmen's Bureau NOT aid former slaves once it was formed?
(a) Agricultural.
(b) Medical.
(c) Legal.
(d) Educational.

3. Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in what year?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1864.
(d) 1877.

4. In what year does Gates say the New Negro movement began?
(a) 1866.
(b) 1893.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1894.

5. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?
(a) The Iron Age.
(b) The Separation Age.
(c) The Technological Age.
(d) The Gilded Age.

6. The pseudoscience of phrenology was founded by a physiologist from what country?
(a) Denmark.
(b) The United States.
(c) Germany.
(d) Belgium.

7. Samuel George Morton, the Philadelphia-based doctor and phrenologist, owned "perhaps the largest collection of" (59) what?
(a) Surgical instruments.
(b) Frozen organs.
(c) Fetal pigs.
(d) Human skulls.

8. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan taught at which college when he wrote Ancient Society?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Brown.
(c) Yale.
(d) Harvard.

9. Gates names which university as the place where the "kernel of the idea" (xv) for Stony the Road formed?
(a) Cornell.
(b) Brown.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

10. Many eugenicists took the hereditary theories of which scientist and then applied them to humans?
(a) Mendel.
(b) Maslow.
(c) Darwin.
(d) Curie.

11. From which two Greek words did the term eugenics spring?
(a) Power and grace.
(b) Best and brightest.
(c) Just and true.
(d) Well and born.

12. What is the term for the "rock-bottom lowest point in American race relations" (9) during a particular era?
(a) A fakir.
(b) A fadir.
(c) A fatwa.
(d) A nadir.

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

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

15. In what year did the first two African American United States senators take office?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1870.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?

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

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

4. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?

5. How long was the period of Reconstruction in the United States?

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