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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison famously burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution in what year?

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

4. The pseudoscience of phrenology was founded by a physiologist from what country?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the monogenecists' two different explanations for the dark color of African Americans' skin.

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

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

5. What two events does Gate use in order to mark the beginning and climax of the Redemption era?

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

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

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

9. How did Frederick Douglass respond to the explosion in popularity around so-called race theory?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that discusses the symbolism of the cover art chosen for Stony the Road.

Essay Topic 2

How are the themes of truth and deception depicted within Gates, Jr.’s book Stony the Road?

Essay Topic 3

What is Gates, Jr.'s message regarding a particular shift in worldview that needs to occur within the minds of members of a particular group of people and why?

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