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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 17?
(a) Or Does It Explode
(b) Robber Barons and Rebels
(c) Self-Help in Hard Times
(d) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom

2. When did the Korean War take place?
(a) 1950-1953
(b) 1944-1949
(c) 1962-1965
(d) 1956-1959

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

4. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
(a) 1965
(b) 1969
(c) 1972
(d) 1967

5. What U.S. President authorized the Japanese American internment with Executive Order 9066?
(a) Franklin D. Roosevelt
(b) Woodrow Wilson
(c) Martin Van Buren
(d) Andrew Jackson

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

7. When was the American Federation of Labor founded?
(a) 1908
(b) 1886
(c) 1865
(d) 1923

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

9. During what years did Gerald Ford serve as President of the United States?
(a) 1977-1981
(b) 1974-1977
(c) 1965-1969
(d) 1973-1977

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

11. What was the name of the atomic bomb that was dropped over Nagasaki?
(a) Little Boy
(b) White Man
(c) Old Man
(d) Fat Man

12. When did the Philippine-American War take place?
(a) 1895-1898
(b) 1799-1815
(c) 1899-1902
(d) 1865-1870

13. The title of Chapter 17 comes from a line of the poem “Harlem” written by whom?
(a) Percy Shelley
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr
(c) E. B. White
(d) Langston Hughes

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the Great Depression, unemployment in the United States rose to what percentage?

2. What date, leading to the onset of the Great Depression, was known as “Black Tuesday”?

3. When did the Spanish-American War end?

4. What is Chapter 13’s title?

5. Vietnam Veterans Against the War began as a placard slogan in the staging area for the Spring Mobilization to End the War anti-war demonstration in what year?

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