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

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

3. How many African Americans attended the parade and mock funeral for slavery held in a particular city in 1865?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What were the qualities associated with the Old Negro, according to Gates?

7. Who was Louis Agassiz?

8. For what purpose does Gates draw a parallel between Reconstruction and a particular modern event?

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

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

In what way does Gates, Jr. go about breaking the text into parts and how do these structural elements help to advance the text’s arguments?

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