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

2. 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

3. When did the Haymarket affair take place in Chicago?
(a) December 15, 1791
(b) February 2, 1826
(c) May 4, 1886
(d) March 27, 1825

4. When did the My Lai Massacre take place?
(a) July 13, 1967
(b) May 30, 1962
(c) June 15, 1969
(d) March 16, 1968

5. Who was the first president of South Vietnam , from 1955 to 1963?
(a) Ho Chi Minh
(b) Ngo Dinh Diem
(c) Mao Ze-Dong
(d) Kim Il Sung

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Executive Order 9981 abolish?

2. What term refers to a political philosophy that advocates stateless societies based on non-hierarchical free associations?

3. Angela Davis emerged as a nationally prominent activist and radical in the 1960s, as a leader of what political party?

4. Why does author Zinn make the argument that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were unnecessary?

5. When was the city of Hiroshima bombed by U.S. forces?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the “Pentagon Papers”? How did these documents come to light?

2. What does Howard Zinn criticize about the U.S.’s involvement in Vietnam in Chapter 18?

3. How did the Industrial Revolution impact the common people, according to the author in Chapter 11?

4. How does the author describe the position of women in society in the 1960s in Chapter 19?

5. What literary figures does Howard Zinn laud for their activism during American imperialism in Chapter 13?

6. What argument does Howard Zinn make regarding the governmental reforms against racial discrimination in Chapter 17?

7. How does the author describe the beginning of the feminist movement in Chapter 19?

8. What does Howard Zinn question about the motives of World War I in Chapter 16?

9. What movements worked to fight against the corruption of corporations and government during the Industrial Revolution, according to the author in Chapter 11?

10. How had governments established order by 1877, according to the author in Chapter 11?

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