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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term refers to an ideology and movement that encourages the solidarity of Africans worldwide?
(a) Pan-Africanism
(b) African Culturism
(c) Anarchism
(d) Black Legionism

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

3. The Japanese American internment was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of about how many people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States?
(a) 200,000
(b) 20,000
(c) 50,000
(d) 110,000

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

5. COINTELPRO is an acronym for what?
(a) Contemporary Intelligence Protocol
(b) Coin-operated Telephone Program
(c) Collateral Intelligence Protocol
(d) Counter Intelligence Program

6. While imprisoned at the age of 20, Malcolm X became a member of what religious movement?
(a) The Society of Unitarianism
(b) The Presbyterian movement
(c) The Nation of Islam
(d) The Nation of Christianity

7. What is the title of Chapter 14?
(a) The Socialist Challenge
(b) War is the Health of the State
(c) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom
(d) Robber Barons and Rebels

8. 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) Anarchism
(c) Communism
(d) Fascism

9. 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

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

11. What date, leading to the onset of the Great Depression, was known as “Black Tuesday”?
(a) September 12, 1929
(b) December 12, 1930
(c) June 13, 1928
(d) October 29, 1929

12. In what year did President Harry S. Truman issue Executive Order 9981?
(a) 1902
(b) 1899
(c) 1848
(d) 1865

13. The United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire comprised what side in World War I?
(a) The Allies
(b) NATO
(c) The Axis Powers
(d) The Central Powers

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 17?

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

3. When was Amnesty International founded?

4. The Knights of Labor demanded a workday that consisted of how many hours?

5. When did World War I begin?

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