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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When was Ho Chi Minh born?
(a) 1915
(b) 1890
(c) 1935
(d) 1942

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

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

6. During the Great Depression, unemployment in the United States rose to what percentage?
(a) 25%
(b) 10%
(c) 15%
(d) 20%

7. When did the Spanish-American War end?
(a) March 12, 1899
(b) September 15, 1900
(c) August 12, 1898
(d) June 24, 1799

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

9. The Industrial Workers of the World is an international union that was formed in what year?
(a) 1911
(b) 1849
(c) 1905
(d) 1899

10. 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

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

12. The Preparedness Day Bombing took place on what date?
(a) September 15, 1900
(b) March 10, 1929
(c) July 22, 1916
(d) August 12, 1898

13. What term refers to a political philosophy that advocates stateless societies based on non-hierarchical free associations?
(a) Anarchism
(b) Socialism
(c) Fascism
(d) Democracy

14. The first of the Jim Crow laws was enacted in what year?
(a) 1901
(b) 1876
(c) 1863
(d) 1836

15. Where was Malcolm X born?
(a) Omaha, Nebraska
(b) San Francisco, California
(c) New York, New York
(d) Austin, Texas

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first president of South Vietnam , from 1955 to 1963?

2. Who was the most important leader in the Knights of Labor?

3. The Homestead Strike was an industrial lockout and strike which began on what date?

4. 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?

5. When did the U.S. drop an atomic bomb over Nagasaki?

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