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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. During the Great Depression, unemployment in the United States rose to what percentage?
(a) 25%
(b) 10%
(c) 15%
(d) 20%
2. What was the name of the atomic bomb that was dropped over Nagasaki?
(a) Old Man
(b) Little Boy
(c) White Man
(d) Fat Man
3. Where was Mary Harris born?
(a) Scotland
(b) England
(c) Ireland
(d) Maine
4. When did the Cuban War of Independence take place?
(a) 1865-1870
(b) 1799-1815
(c) 1895-1898
(d) 1911-1915
5. What is the title of Chapter 17?
(a) Robber Barons and Rebels
(b) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom
(c) Self-Help in Hard Times
(d) Or Does It Explode
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. What name refers to a U.S. military operation during the Vietnam War, lasting from 1962 until 1971, that employed chemical warfare?
3. The Preparedness Day Bombing was a bombing that took place where?
4. The first of the Jim Crow laws was enacted in what year?
5. What did Executive Order 9981 abolish?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the “Cold War” defined by the author in Chapter 16?
2. How had governments established order by 1877, according to the author in Chapter 11?
3. How did World War I begin? How was the war perceived by the American Communist Party, according to the author in Chapter 16?
4. What quote of Randolph Bourne is discussed in Chapter 14? How does Zinn assert Bourne’s quote is correct?
5. What wars emerged as a result of American imperialism? How does the author describe these wars in Chapter 12?
6. What developments emerged to fight back against the growing power of corporations prior to World War I, according to the author in Chapter 13?
7. What were the “Pentagon Papers”? How did these documents come to light?
8. What literary figures does Howard Zinn laud for their activism during American imperialism in Chapter 13?
9. How does Howard Zinn describe the increasing power of banks as a result of the Industrial Revolution in Chapter 13?
10. How does the author describe the government's campaign to destroy the IWW in Chapter 15?
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