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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 Industrial Workers of the World is an international union that was formed in what year?
(a) 1905
(b) 1899
(c) 1911
(d) 1849

2. Where was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
(a) Concord, Massachusetts
(b) New York, New York
(c) Great Barrington, Massachusetts
(d) Portland, Maine

3. Christopher Columbus first encountered the Lucayan-Arawak Indians in a location known now as what?
(a) The Bahamas
(b) New England
(c) Australia
(d) Peru

4. When was The Feminine Mystique published?
(a) 1972
(b) 1963
(c) 1969
(d) 1959

5. 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) 6 million
(b) 3 million
(c) 50 million
(d) 20 million

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the name of the agreement struck in 1895 between African-American leaders and Southern white leaders that stipulated Southern blacks would work meekly and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic education and due process in law?

3. Who signed into law the Espionage Act of 1917?

4. When did the U.S. drop an atomic bomb over Nagasaki?

5. How many men did Columbus leave behind at the Navidad fort?

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