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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color uniforms did Blacks wear in the Union Army?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Brown.
(d) Black.

2. When Smith was in New York City, what station did he leave from to reach the South Ferry stop?
(a) Grand Central Station.
(b) Penn Station.
(c) Byside Station.
(d) Parkside Station.

3. What General and his men were urged by the Richmond Examiner to "butcher every negro that Grant sends against your brave troops? (131)?
(a) General Chestnut.
(b) General Mahone.
(c) General Allen.
(d) General Starke.

4. When the Whiteheads sold the land that became Seneca Village, what did a Black shoe shiner named Andrew Williams pay for three plots of land?
(a) $150.
(b) $125.
(c) $110.
(d) $135.

5. How many times did an honor guard at the Sons of Confederate Veterans celebration at Blandford shoot their rifles?
(a) 3 times.
(b) 4 times.
(c) 1 time.
(d) 2 times.

6. When did Jefferson publish a history of the Confederacy claiming that slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1881.
(c) 1887.
(d) 1883.

7. When did Sam Houston, the first president of the Republic of Texas, refuse to swear an oath to the Confederacy?
(a) 1860.
(b) 1862.
(c) 1861.
(d) 1859.

8. When was the song Dixie written?
(a) 1850s.
(b) 1820s.
(c) 1840s.
(d) 1830s.

9. When did a new museum open on Liberty Island where the Statue of Liberty is located?
(a) 2017.
(b) 2020.
(c) 2018.
(d) 2019.

10. When does myth say that Union general Gordon Granger stood on the balcony of Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and read the order that announced the end of slavery?
(a) June 18, 1865.
(b) June 17, 1865.
(c) June 20, 1865.
(d) June 19, 1865.

11. When did a Black community once exist in what has become Central Park?
(a) 1835 to 1861.
(b) 1825 to 1857.
(c) 1820 to 1849.
(d) 1830 to 1854.

12. How many stained glass windows did Louis Comfort Tiffany create for Blandford Church?
(a) 20.
(b) 12.
(c) 15.
(d) 18.

13. How many Black soldiers fought on behalf of the Union?
(a) 200,000.
(b) 250,000.
(c) 150,000.
(d) 300,000.

14. What countries had considered supported the Confederacy before the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) Germany and Italy.
(b) Austria and Germany.
(c) Britain and France.
(d) Britain and Spain.

15. At the Juneteenth celebration Smith attended, what church did Reverend Lewis Simpson Jr. pastor?
(a) First Union Baptist Church.
(b) Saint John Missionary Baptist Church.
(c) Living Word Baptist Church.
(d) Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the African Burial Ground declared a National Historic Landmark?

2. When was Mr. Richard Poplar, a Black gentleman, said to have joined the Susex Dragoons?

3. When did former Confederate general Bradley T. Johnson explain that slavery was an apprenticeship for savage races?

4. When did the first enslaved Africans arrive in America?

5. How long after General Granger issued his general order in Galveston did the people from the Freedmen's Bureau arrive to provide assistance to Blacks?

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