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

2. Gates states that the beginning of the Redemption era occurred in what year?

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

4. In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed?

5. What was the name of the era that took place in the "last quarter of the nineteenth century" (67) in the United States?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the significance of the years 1865 through 1877?

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

5. How did Louis Agassiz's views change over time and why is that change significant?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Gates, Jr.’s use of Aristotle's appeals within the text of Stony the Road. How does Gates, Jr. use each of the three appeals to persuade the reader of argumentative points central to the tenets of the work?

Essay Topic 2

What is the ultimate purpose behind Gates, Jr.’s inclusion of visual images within Stony the Road?

Essay Topic 3

How does Gates, Jr. use sensory details in order to strengthen the text’s messages? Discuss at least two passages that include the use of sensory details and pull quotes from these passages to support your claim.

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