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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the most important leader in the Knights of Labor?
(a) William Calley
(b) Betty Friedan
(c) Terence V. Powderly
(d) Woodrow Wilson

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

3. What is Chapter 13’s title?
(a) Robber Barons and Rebels
(b) The Socialist Challenge
(c) The Empire and the People
(d) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom

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

5. The title of Chapter 17 comes from a line of the poem “Harlem” written by whom?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr
(b) E. B. White
(c) Percy Shelley
(d) Langston Hughes

6. The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict beginning in what year?
(a) 1962
(b) 1942
(c) 1965
(d) 1955

7. When did the Haymarket affair take place in Chicago?
(a) May 4, 1886
(b) December 15, 1791
(c) March 27, 1825
(d) February 2, 1826

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

9. In what year did Richard Nixon resign as President of the United States?
(a) 1969
(b) 1977
(c) 1974
(d) 1981

10. Vietnam Veterans Against the War began as a placard slogan in the staging area for the Spring Mobilization to End the War anti-war demonstration in what year?
(a) 1963
(b) 1967
(c) 1969
(d) 1971

11. The Industrial Workers of the World is an international union that was formed in what year?
(a) 1905
(b) 1911
(c) 1849
(d) 1899

12. What is the title of Chapter 12?
(a) The Empire and the People
(b) The Seventies: Under Control
(c) Or Does It Explode
(d) Self-Help in Hard Times

13. Where was Mary Harris born?
(a) Scotland
(b) Maine
(c) Ireland
(d) England

14. When was the American Railway Union founded?
(a) 1893
(b) 1905
(c) 1911
(d) 1899

15. During the Great Depression, unemployment in the United States rose to what percentage?
(a) 20%
(b) 10%
(c) 25%
(d) 15%

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Alexander Berkman born?

2. What date, leading to the onset of the Great Depression, was known as “Black Tuesday”?

3. What platoon leader in the Vietnam War was convicted of killing 22 villagers at My Lai and was originally given a life sentence but only served three and a half years under house arrest?

4. When was the city of Hiroshima bombed by U.S. forces?

5. What is the title of Chapter 19?

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