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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did W. E. B. Du Bois graduate from Harvard?
(a) January 7, 1890.
(b) February 23, 1868.
(c) April 15, 1861.
(d) June 25, 1890.

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

4. When did Jefferson Davis take the presidential oath of the new Confederate States of America?
(a) March, 1857.
(b) June, 1860.
(c) July, 1865.
(d) February, 1861.

5. How many of the 1.1 million men, women, and children in the U.S. contraband camps died during the Civil War?
(a) One in three.
(b) One in six.
(c) One in four.
(d) One in ten.

Short Answer Questions

1. What newspaper is described as having had the headline "Disaster in the Making: Crack Babies Start to Grow Up"?

2. Who wrote Tarzan of the Apes?

3. 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)?

4. When did the Congress of Industrial Organizations emerge?

5. Who directed the film Malcolm X?

Short Essay Questions

1. What change did Malcolm X experience during his trip to Mecca in 1963?

2. What led to the L.A. Riots in the early 1990s? How did the riots impact race relations?

3. What led Lincoln to enact the Emancipation Proclamation?

4. How had W. E. B. Du Bois' views changed by 1933? Why?

5. Who is Angela Davis? What led Davis to activism?

6. When did the Black Power movement emerge and what did it hope to achieve?

7. When and where was W. E. B. Du Bois born and raised? What made him unique?

8. What response did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 garner?

9. What discussion does the author make regarding The Cosby Show?

10. Who was Franz Boas and what did he present at the Atlanta University Commencement Address that shocked his audience?

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