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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 20?
(a) The Seventies: Under Control
(b) War is the Health of the State
(c) The Socialist Challenge
(d) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom

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

3. What name refers to a U.S. military operation during the Vietnam War, lasting from 1962 until 1971, that employed chemical warfare?
(a) Operation Orange Agent
(b) Operation Sushi Chef
(c) Operation Ranch Hand
(d) Operation Eagle Landing

4. The Knights of Labor demanded a workday that consisted of how many hours?
(a) 12
(b) 6
(c) 8
(d) 5

5. What is defined as an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means and production and cooperative management of the economy?
(a) Socialism
(b) Communism
(c) Anarchism
(d) Fascism

Short Answer Questions

1. The Industrial Workers of the World is an international union that was formed in what year?

2. What term refers to the period of feminist activity that first began in the early 1960s in the United States, and eventually spread throughout the Western world?

3. What author spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his Massachusetts Poll Tax because he opposed the Mexican-American War?

4. The ship headed for Jamestown that J. Saunders Redding writes about in Chapter 2 carried how many slaves?

5. When did Christopher Columbus first encounter the Arawak people?

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