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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: "Angela Davis," Chapters 34-37 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What act was passed in 1861 that declared that slave holders forfeited their ownership of any property, including slaves, used by the Confederate Army?
(a) The Confiscation Act.
(b) The Immigration Act.
(c) The Emancipation Act.
(d) The Naturalization Act.

2. What theory did Aristotle develop to justify Greek superiority?
(a) Curse theory.
(b) Climate theory.
(c) Naturalization theory.
(d) Ascension theory.

3. What does CORE stand for?
(a) Congress of Racial Equality.
(b) Conditions of Racial Equality.
(c) Company of Racial Equity.
(d) Considerations on Racial Equality.

4. Where was Woodrow Wilson born?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Tennessee.

5. What group described by the author in the Prologue "has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities" (2)?
(a) Segregationists.
(b) Antiracists.
(c) Abolitionists.
(d) Assimilationists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had sex on the Ark despite having been told not to, according to Genesis of the Bible?

2. When did the Salem witch trials take place?

3. Who is the off-duty detective that shot Rekia Boyd?

4. What U.S. state was central in the McCleskey v. Kemp case?

5. Where is To Kill a Mockingbird set?

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