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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 first high school for Blacks established in Texas?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1889.

2. In Richmond, what size is the Robert E. Lee statue?
(a) 12 feet tall.
(b) 21 feet tall.
(c) 27 feet tall.
(d) 18 feet tall.

3. How many years did it take Nora Davidson's Ladies' Memorial Association to exhume bodies of Confederate soldiers and bury them?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 5 years.

4. When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, how much of the total wealthy in the U.S. was owned by Black Americans?
(a) 0.4 percent.
(b) 0.2 percent.
(c) 0.5 percent.
(d) 0.7 percent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the first Memorial Day celebrated on the grounds of Blandford Cemetery?

2. According to a woman named Temple Cummins, how long did her master intend to delay telling the slaves they were free?

3. When was the Historical African American Cemeteries and Graves Act passed by the Virginia legislature?

4. In 2018, how much tax money was directed toward maintaining Confederate monuments?

5. At the Juneteenth celebration Smith attended, what church did Reverend Lewis Simpson Jr. pastor?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Al Edwards Sr. work to make Juneteenth a Texas state holiday?

2. What myth tells a story about General Gordon Granger?

3. What did Martha at Blandford Cemetery think Robert E. Lee would have felt about all the statues in his honor?

4. What is the history of the Black National Anthem?

5. What did Damaras Obi, a tour guide in New York City, say about how slavery was central to the U.S. economy?

6. What did Heidi Christensen say about the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC)?

7. What was the Blandford Church?

8. What did Robert E. Lee write in a letter in 1869 about monuments?

9. According to historian Jill Lepore, what was the death toll for Africans brought to America?

10. When was slavery introduced to Manhattan and when was it abolished in New York State?

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