A People's History of the United States Test | Final Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Malcolm X born?
(a) New York, New York
(b) Austin, Texas
(c) San Francisco, California
(d) Omaha, Nebraska

2. When did World War I begin?
(a) August 12, 1898
(b) March 27, 1925
(c) September 15, 1900
(d) July 28, 1914

3. What term refers to an ideology and movement that encourages the solidarity of Africans worldwide?
(a) Anarchism
(b) Black Legionism
(c) Pan-Africanism
(d) African Culturism

4. Who wrote The Feminine Mystique?
(a) Betty Friedan
(b) Henry David Thoreau
(c) Harriot Hunt
(d) Emma Willard

5. What name refers to a U.S. military operation during the Vietnam War, lasting from 1962 until 1971, that employed chemical warfare?
(a) Operation Ranch Hand
(b) Operation Orange Agent
(c) Operation Eagle Landing
(d) Operation Sushi Chef

6. What was the name of the atomic bomb that was dropped over Nagasaki?
(a) White Man
(b) Old Man
(c) Fat Man
(d) Little Boy

7. What is the title of Chapter 17?
(a) Self-Help in Hard Times
(b) Or Does It Explode
(c) Robber Barons and Rebels
(d) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom

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

9. The Preparedness Day Bombing took place on what date?
(a) July 22, 1916
(b) August 12, 1898
(c) September 15, 1900
(d) March 10, 1929

10. Who was the first president of South Vietnam , from 1955 to 1963?
(a) Ho Chi Minh
(b) Mao Ze-Dong
(c) Kim Il Sung
(d) Ngo Dinh Diem

11. The Homestead Strike was an industrial lockout and strike which began on what date?
(a) December 15, 1791
(b) March 28, 1905
(c) March 27, 1825
(d) June 30, 1892

12. When was Amnesty International founded?
(a) 1977
(b) 1952
(c) 1914
(d) 1961

13. Who was elected president of the American Federation of Labor at its founding convention?
(a) Terence V. Powderly
(b) William Berkeley
(c) Samuel Gompers
(d) Andrew Jackson

14. Who signed into law the Espionage Act of 1917?
(a) Woodrow Wilson
(b) James Polk
(c) Martin Van Buren
(d) Andrew Jackson

15. When did Herbert Hoover serve as President of the United States?
(a) 1919-1923
(b) 1929-1933
(c) 1911-1914
(d) 1889-1903

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Haymarket affair take place in Chicago?

2. The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict beginning in what year?

3. When was the American Railway Union founded?

4. The Japanese American internment was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of about how many people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States?

5. When did the Philippine-American War take place?

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