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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 Segregation Act.
(b) The Emancipation Act.
(c) The Naturalization Act.
(d) The Confiscation Act.

2. African Americans make up what percentage of the nation's prison population?
(a) 40%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 20%.

3. To whom was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given after he was enslaved?
(a) Pope Leo X.
(b) King George.
(c) Cotton Mather.
(d) George Fox.

4. How many of the 1.1 million men, women, and children in the U.S. contraband camps died during the Civil War?
(a) One in six.
(b) One in ten.
(c) One in three.
(d) One in four.

5. What was the nation's first center dedicated to improving the nation's genetic stock?
(a) The New York University Laboratory.
(b) The Grady Cutler Laboratory.
(c) The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
(d) The Heinz-Anderson Laboratory.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The author indicates that at the time the book was written, Federal data shows that the median wealth of White households is how many more times the median wealth of Black households?

3. Who wrote Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave in 1688?

4. When did W. E. B. Du Bois publish Dusk of Dawn?

5. Who became "one of the first African Americans to publicly attack the idea of uplift suasion" in the 1830s (179)?

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