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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 19?
(a) War is the Health of the State
(b) Self-Help in Hard Times
(c) Surprises
(d) Or Does It Explode

2. The Knights of Labor demanded a workday that consisted of how many hours?
(a) 5
(b) 12
(c) 8
(d) 6

3. When was the Fairness Doctrine introduced by the FCC?
(a) 1911
(b) 1962
(c) 1975
(d) 1949

4. While imprisoned at the age of 20, Malcolm X became a member of what religious movement?
(a) The Nation of Christianity
(b) The Society of Unitarianism
(c) The Presbyterian movement
(d) The Nation of Islam

5. For what utopian novel is Edward Bellamy most famous?
(a) The Great American North
(b) The Sun Also Rises
(c) Looking Backward
(d) The Trail of Tears

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the most important leader in the Knights of Labor?

2. In Chapter 2, J. Saunders Redding writes about a ship headed for Jamestown that arrived in North America in what year?

3. The Plowshares Movement was an anti-nuclear weapons and largely Christian pacifist movement that gained notoriety in what decade?

4. When did the Seven Years’ War begin?

5. What was the name of the agreement struck in 1895 between African-American leaders and Southern white leaders that stipulated Southern blacks would work meekly and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic education and due process in law?

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