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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the Civil War, the South focused their efforts on maintaining the profit margin on what crop?
(a) Wheat.
(b) Alfalfa.
(c) Cotton.
(d) Corn.

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

3. 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.

4. In what capacity was Louis Agassiz hired by a particular institution of higher learning in 1846?
(a) As a professor of biology.
(b) As the dean of students.
(c) As a professor of anthropology.
(d) As a professor of natural history.

5. What adjective was added to the term eugenics in order to signify "the use of selective breeding to create a genetically superior race and to eliminate 'inferior' people" (74)?
(a) Modern.
(b) Designed.
(c) Positive.
(d) Race.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Fourteenth Amendment ratified?

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

3. When the Civil War ended, the South exchanged slavery for what practice?

4. In what year did Samuel Cartwright publish the article entitled "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race" (60)?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. To what modern event does Gates connect the period of Redemption and why?

3. Describe the experience Gates had in college that served as the impetus for writing Stony the Road.

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

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. Who was Louis Agassiz?

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

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

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

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

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