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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did The Cosby Show premier?

2. When did the First Battle of Bull run take place in northern Virginia?

3. When did Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X meet for the first time?

4. Where did W. E. B. Du Bois attend college?

5. Where did Angela Davis earn her BA?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led Lincoln to enact the Emancipation Proclamation?

2. What was the mission of the National Associatoin of Colored Women and when was this organization formed?

3. What were the "race-veiled" voting restrictions that emerged in the 1890s in the South (273)?

4. How did the question of race in America change after World War II and during the Cold War?

5. What led William Lloyd Garrison to say of Abraham Lincoln that he did not have "a drop of antislavery blood in his veins" (217)?

6. What is the significance of Jack Johnson historically?

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

8. What impacts did the women's suffrage movement have on the Black community?

9. What was the significance of the release of the Human Genome Project results in 2000?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the ideals, convictions, and philosophies that emerged during the period leading up to and during the American Civil War. Who were the leaders in these philosophies? What were Lincoln's main concerns regarding the war? What were his convictions and actions regarding slavery? What were his weaknesses in this regard?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the concept of Carl Linnaeus's classification of humans into four separate species. How did this promote racist thought? What further hierarchies were then developed? What did they imply?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the life, career, and work of W. E. B. Du Bois. When and where was Du Bois born? What views and ideals did Du Bois embrace early in his career? How did those ideals change over the course of his life? Why did they change? What are the successes and failures of Du Bois?

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