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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Angela Davis from?
(a) Charlottesville, South Carolina.
(b) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(c) Birmingham, Alabama.
(d) Mempthis, Tennessee.

2. Who wrote the 1990 book Black Feminist Thought?
(a) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(b) Mary McLeod Bethune.
(c) Patricia Hill Collins.
(d) Sophia Williams.

3. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
(a) April 15, 1861.
(b) June 25, 1890.
(c) January 1, 1863.
(d) February 23, 1868.

4. Who wrote Our Brother in Black?
(a) Atticus Haygood.
(b) Henry Morton Stanley.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Henry W. Grady.

5. Where did Angela Davis earn her BA?
(a) Howard University.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) Brandeis University.
(d) Brown University.

6. Where was Franz Boas from?
(a) Portugal.
(b) Spain.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

7. When was To Kill a Mockingbird published?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1961.

8. When did W. E. B. Du Bois publish Dusk of Dawn?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1915.

9. Who issued his Reconstruction proclamations on May 29, 1865, deflating the hopes of civil rights activists?
(a) Andrew Johnson.
(b) Thaddeus Stevens.
(c) Hendrik Cesars.
(d) Alexander Stephens.

10. Where did W. E. B. Du Bois attend college?
(a) Fisk University.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Princeton University.

11. When was the New Deal enacted?
(a) 1933-1938.
(b) 1920-1929.
(c) 1940-1948.
(d) 1935-1939.

12. When did Matthew Butler and John Tyler Morgan introduce a congressional bill to fund Black emigration to Africa?
(a) January 7, 1890.
(b) February 23, 1868.
(c) June 25, 1890.
(d) January 1, 1863.

13. Who wrote the short story collection In Ole Virginia, or Marse Chan and Others in 1887?
(a) Henry Morton Stanley.
(b) Thomas Nelson Page.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Henry W. Grady.

14. Who was impeached on the day after W. E. B. Du Bois was born?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Andrew Jackson.
(c) Andrew Johnson.
(d) Lyndon B. Johnson.

15. In the Declaration of Causes issued by Florida's secessionists, they maintained that Blacks must be enslaved because everywhere "their natural tendency" was toward what (214)?
(a) "Thievery and abuse."
(b) "Idleness, vagrancy, and crime."
(c) "Rape and sexuality."
(d) "Rebellion and resistance."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gave Malcolm X a eulogy praising him as "our shining black prince" (389)?

2. Along with Huey P. Newton, who penned the ten-point platform for the newly founded Black Panther Party In 1966?

3. Who wrote Through the Dark Continent in 1878?

4. Who wrote Heredity in Relation to Eugenics?

5. Who wrote Two Nations, Black & White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal?

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