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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
(a) 1798
(b) 1865
(c) 1800
(d) 1868

2. When did James Polk serve as President of the United States?
(a) 1911-1915
(b) 1861-1865
(c) 1845-1849
(d) 1837-1841

3. 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?
(a) Cultural feminism
(b) Neo-feminism
(c) Reverse feminism
(d) Second-wave feminism

4. What was Malcolm X’s birth name?
(a) Malcolm Little
(b) Malcolm Anderson
(c) Malcolm Richards
(d) Malcolm Wilson

5. Who wrote the memoir entitled Glances and Glimpses; Or, Fifty Years' Social, Including Twenty Years' Professional Life?
(a) Emma Willard
(b) Betty Friedan
(c) Harriot Hunt
(d) Jimmy Carter

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Great Britain impose the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper made in London?

2. When was Catharine Beecher born?

3. When was the United States Bill of Rights ratified?

4. Who among Christopher Columbus’s shipmates took the Pinta on an unauthorized expedition in search of an island called "Babeque" to search for gold while in Cuba?

5. According to the author in Chapter 7, “In 1820, 120,000 Indians lived east of the Mississippi. By 1844, fewer than” how many were left?

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