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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Preparedness Day Bombing was a bombing that took place where?
(a) San Francisco, California
(b) Albuquerque, New Mexico
(c) Reno, Nevada
(d) Los Angeles, California

2. When did the Stono Rebellion take place?
(a) 1773
(b) 1659
(c) 1776
(d) 1739

3. What was the name of the alliance comprised of Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I?
(a) The Central Powers
(b) The Axis Powers
(c) NATO
(d) The Allies

4. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers against what governor?
(a) William Berkeley
(b) Andrew Jackson
(c) Augusto César Sandino
(d) Jonathan Schell

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

Short Answer Questions

1. COINTELPRO is an acronym for what?

2. What was Malcolm X’s birth name?

3. Why does author Zinn make the argument that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were unnecessary?

4. The Republic of Texas was an independent sovereign nation in North America from 1836 until what year?

5. Where did the Stono Rebellion take place?

(see the answer key)

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