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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 50 million
(c) 20 million
(d) 3 million

2. Amy Carter was arrested during a 1986 demonstration at what university for protesting CIA recruitment there?
(a) The University of Massachusetts Amherst
(b) Dartmouth University
(c) The University of California Berkeley
(d) The University of Texas

3. What is the title of Chapter 22?
(a) The Unreported Resistance
(b) Self-Help in Hard Times
(c) The Empire and the People
(d) Surprises

4. What ship in Christopher Columbus’s fleet ran aground in Hispaniola, leading him to build a fort from it?
(a) The Santa Maria
(b) The Nina
(c) The Gallega
(d) The Pinta

5. In what year did Emma Goldman immigrate to the United States?
(a) 1798
(b) 1865
(c) 1885
(d) 1905

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Bill Clinton born?

2. By 1619, how many blacks had already been transported from Africa to the Caribbean and South America to work as slaves, according to the author in Chapter 2?

3. What two brothers were part of the “Plowshares Eight” that began the Plowshares Movement?

4. 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?

5. The United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire comprised what side in World War I?

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