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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. When was the American Railway Union founded?
(a) 1899
(b) 1905
(c) 1893
(d) 1911
2. While imprisoned at the age of 20, Malcolm X became a member of what religious movement?
(a) The Nation of Christianity
(b) The Nation of Islam
(c) The Society of Unitarianism
(d) The Presbyterian movement
3. What term refers to a political philosophy that advocates stateless societies based on non-hierarchical free associations?
(a) Democracy
(b) Socialism
(c) Anarchism
(d) Fascism
4. 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 Republican Party
(c) The Democratic Party
(d) The Socialist Party of America
5. The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict beginning in what year?
(a) 1942
(b) 1965
(c) 1962
(d) 1955
Short Answer Questions
1. When did the U.S. drop an atomic bomb over Nagasaki?
2. What is the title of Chapter 14?
3. Eugene V. Debs ran unsuccessfully for President of the United States several times as a candidate for what political party?
4. The Preparedness Day Bombing was a bombing that took place where?
5. When was Amnesty International founded?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Zinn characterize the atmosphere of rebellion during the period of American imperialism in Chapter 13?
2. How does the author describe the position of women in society in the 1960s in Chapter 19?
3. How does Zinn describe the differences between the upper and lower classes regarding their trust in the government in Chapter 20?
4. How does the author describe the beginning of the feminist movement in Chapter 19?
5. What literary figures does Howard Zinn laud for their activism during American imperialism in Chapter 13?
6. What were the reasons for the period of American imperialism that began in the 1890s? Chapter 12?
7. How did the Industrial Revolution impact the common people, according to the author in Chapter 11?
8. What does Howard Zinn criticize about the U.S.’s involvement in Vietnam in Chapter 18?
9. How is the “Cold War” defined by the author in Chapter 16?
10. How does the author describe the government's campaign to destroy the IWW in Chapter 15?
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