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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What terminology refers to the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, or commands of a government?
(a) Boycott
(b) Civil disobedience
(c) Terrorism
(d) General strike

2. When was Catharine Beecher born?
(a) 1752
(b) 1800
(c) 1815
(d) 1698

3. What author spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his Massachusetts Poll Tax because he opposed the Mexican-American War?
(a) Walt Whitman
(b) Percy Shelley
(c) James Joyce
(d) Henry David Thoreau

4. The Anti-Rent War was also known by what name?
(a) The Helderberg War
(b) The Mondale War
(c) The Hunt War
(d) The Powderly War

5. When did the Korean War take place?
(a) 1944-1949
(b) 1956-1959
(c) 1950-1953
(d) 1962-1965

Short Answer Questions

1. Martin Van Buren served as U.S. President during what years?

2. Who among Christopher Columbus’s shipmates took the Pinta on an unauthorized expedition in search of an island called "Babeque" to search for gold while in Cuba?

3. Abbie Hoffman was a political and social activist who co-founded what countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the anti-war movements of the 1960s?

4. The phrase “War on Terror” is no longer officially used by the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama. What phrase is used by this administration instead?

5. Who was the most important leader in the Knights of Labor?

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