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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: "W. E. B. Du Bois," Chapters 27-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What act on March 26, 1790 limited citizenship to "free white persons" of "good character" (121)?
(a) The Emancipation Act.
(b) The Naturalization Act.
(c) The Confiscation Act.
(d) The Segregation Act.

2. When did minstrel shows emerge in the U.S.?
(a) The 1850s.
(b) The 1820s.
(c) The 1790s.
(d) The 1830s.

3. Whose acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin set off the #Black Lives Matter movement?
(a) George Zimmerman.
(b) Dante Servin.
(c) Darren Wilson.
(d) Dylann Roof.

4. Who was the chief propagandist of the New South in the 1880s?
(a) Benjamin Lundy.
(b) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(c) Alexander Stephens.
(d) Henry W. Grady.

5. Who wrote the treatise Commentary on Ephesians?
(a) Thomas Bray.
(b) Georges Cuvier.
(c) Paul Baynes.
(d) Morgan Godwyn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What character takes on the name "Tarzan" in Tarzan of the Apes?

2. Who was responsible for the murders in the Charleson church shooting?

3. Who was the only woman in Franklin Roosevelt's "Black cabinet"?

4. Who wrote Two Lectures on the Natural History of the Caucasian and Negro Races in 1845?

5. Who was W. E. B. Du Bois's half brother who was born out of wedlock?

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