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

2. When did the Philippine-American War take place?
(a) 1895-1898
(b) 1899-1902
(c) 1865-1870
(d) 1799-1815

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

4. What was the name of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) Fat Man
(b) Blue Tear
(c) Black Rocket
(d) Little Boy

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 15?

2. Approximately how many people were killed as a result of the firestorm from the Bombing of Dresden?

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

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

5. What is the title of Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

1. What corruptions of the government are discussed by Howard Zinn in Chapter 20?

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

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

4. What developments emerged to fight back against the growing power of corporations prior to World War I, according to the author in Chapter 13?

5. When did the My Lai Massacre take place? How is this event described in Chapter 18?

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

7. How is the “Cold War” defined by the author in Chapter 16?

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

9. What wars emerged as a result of American imperialism? How does the author describe these wars in Chapter 12?

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

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