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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-20.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the title of Chapter 19?
(a) War is the Health of the State
(b) Surprises
(c) Self-Help in Hard Times
(d) Or Does It Explode
2. On Columbus’s second voyage for the King and Queen of Spain, he was unable to locate gold so he instead filled his ships with how many slaves?
(a) 200
(b) 50
(c) 150
(d) 500
3. What title refers to the fictional story of a woman put on trial in 1747 for having an illegitimate child?
(a) The Scarlet Letter
(b) The Unreported Resistance
(c) The Speech of Polly Baker
(d) The Empire and the People
4. The author states in Chapter 2, “It is roughly estimated that Africa lost” how many “human beings to death and slavery in those centuries we call the beginnings of modern Western civilization”?
(a) 20 million
(b) 6 million
(c) 50 million
(d) 3 million
5. What was the name of the atomic bomb that was dropped over Nagasaki?
(a) Little Boy
(b) Fat Man
(c) White Man
(d) Old Man
Short Answer Questions
1. The Japanese American internment was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of about how many people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States?
2. What is the title of Chapter 6 in A People’s History of the United States?
3. What were the two main resources sought by Christopher Columbus on his voyage when he first encountered the Arawaks?
4. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers against what governor?
5. What name refers to a U.S. military operation during the Vietnam War, lasting from 1962 until 1971, that employed chemical warfare?
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