1. The ship headed for Jamestown that J. Saunders Redding writes about in Chapter 2 carried how many slaves?
(a) 50
(b) 20
(c) 100
(d) 30

2. Where was Alexander Berkman born?
(a) The Russian Empire
(b) Germany
(c) Great Britain
(d) The Netherlands

3. According to the author in Chapter 4, in 1700 colonial trade equaled £500,000; by 1770 it totaled how much?
(a) £800,000
(b) £1,500,000
(c) £1,000,000
(d) £2,800,000

4. What is the title of Chapter 12?
(a) The Empire and the People
(b) The Seventies: Under Control
(c) Self-Help in Hard Times
(d) Or Does It Explode

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What platoon leader in the Vietnam War was convicted of killing 22 villagers at My Lai and was originally given a life sentence but only served three and a half years under house arrest?

2. What is the title of Chapter 14?

3. What was Malcolm X’s birth name?

4. What is the title of Chapter 15?

5. When was Amnesty International founded?

(see the answer key)

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