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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. What was the main premise behind the theory of polygenesis?
(a) The notion that black people were a separate race from white people.
(b) The notion that each race of people on earth should have its own leader.
(c) The notion that every race had had its own creator.
(d) The notion that there was an inherent hierarchy within each racial group.

2. When William Lloyd Garrison burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, what other object did he burn as well?
(a) A set of stocks.
(b) A yoke for oxen.
(c) A copy of the Fugitive Slave Law.
(d) A copy of the Declaration of Independence.

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

4. In what year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1865.

5. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed voters in what part of the United States to choose to permit slavery through a popular vote?
(a) The East.
(b) The West.
(c) The South.
(d) The North.

Short Answer Questions

1. The anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan taught at which college when he wrote Ancient Society?

2. Who wrote a book in 1935 called Black Reconstruction in America?

3. Gates asserts in Part Two that monogenesis "found its basis" (57) in what element of society?

4. Who directed the film entitled The Birth of a Nation?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. To what source did proponents of monogenesis turn for justification for their theory?

4. How does Gates go about interweaving the two themes of healing and justice?

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

7. Which experiences of Abraham Lincoln's does Gates cite as causing his ideas about race to evolve?

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

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

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

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