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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Herbert Hoover serve as President of the United States?
(a) 1919-1923
(b) 1911-1914
(c) 1929-1933
(d) 1889-1903

2. What is the title of Chapter 6 in A People’s History of the United States?
(a) The Intimately Oppressed
(b) The Coming Revolt of the Guards
(c) The Unreported Resistance
(d) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom

3. What was Malcolm X’s birth name?
(a) Malcolm Wilson
(b) Malcolm Richards
(c) Malcolm Little
(d) Malcolm Anderson

4. Sam Davis was hung by a mob in Harrodsburg, Kentucky in what year?
(a) 1811
(b) 1852
(c) 1902
(d) 1868

5. Who was the first president of South Vietnam , from 1955 to 1963?
(a) Kim Il Sung
(b) Ngo Dinh Diem
(c) Ho Chi Minh
(d) Mao Ze-Dong

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 7?

2. When did the Mexican-American War take place?

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

4. The author notes in Chapter 4 that by 1760, there had been how many uprisings designed to create a coup to overthrown various branches of the colonial governments?

5. When did World War I begin?

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