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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Executive Order 9981 abolish?
(a) Women’s right to vote
(b) Slavery of African Americans
(c) Racial discrimination in the armed forces
(d) Trade agreements with the Native Americans

2. Angela Davis emerged as a nationally prominent activist and radical in the 1960s, as a leader of what political party?
(a) The Communist Party USA
(b) The Socialist Party of America
(c) The Republican Party
(d) The Democratic Party

3. 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?
(a) John Whitmore
(b) Nathan Bacon
(c) William Calley
(d) William Berkeley

4. The People’s Party, or the “Populists” was a short-lived political party established in what year?
(a) 1891
(b) 1911
(c) 1915
(d) 1932

5. When was the city of Hiroshima bombed by U.S. forces?
(a) September 12, 1944
(b) August 9, 1945
(c) June 13, 1946
(d) August 6, 1945

6. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in what year?
(a) 1939
(b) 1925
(c) 1911
(d) 1930

7. When did the Haymarket affair take place in Chicago?
(a) February 2, 1826
(b) March 27, 1825
(c) December 15, 1791
(d) May 4, 1886

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

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

10. In what year did Richard Nixon resign as President of the United States?
(a) 1969
(b) 1974
(c) 1977
(d) 1981

11. For what utopian novel is Edward Bellamy most famous?
(a) The Sun Also Rises
(b) The Trail of Tears
(c) The Great American North
(d) Looking Backward

12. What was the name of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) Black Rocket
(b) Fat Man
(c) Little Boy
(d) Blue Tear

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

14. Approximately how many people were killed as a result of the firestorm from the Bombing of Dresden?
(a) 10,300-11,250
(b) 25,000-30,000
(c) 22,700-25,000
(d) 32,400-40,000

15. When did the My Lai Massacre take place?
(a) May 30, 1962
(b) June 15, 1969
(c) July 13, 1967
(d) March 16, 1968

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Chapter 13’s title?

2. Who was elected president of the American Federation of Labor at its founding convention?

3. Who wrote The Feminine Mystique?

4. What is the title of Chapter 14?

5. What is the title of Chapter 17?

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