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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. When did Harriet Beecher Stowe write Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1852.

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

3. When was the Peace Corps established?
(a) January 21, 1970.
(b) March 1, 1961.
(c) January 1, 1965.
(d) April 9, 1950.

4. What was the principal Muslim trading depot that King John of Portugal set out to obtain?
(a) Ceuta.
(b) Manatowak.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Cordoba.

5. When did Charles II restore the English throne?
(a) 1626.
(b) 1689.
(c) 1692.
(d) 1660.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Declaration of Causes issued by Florida's secessionists, they maintained that Blacks must be enslaved because everywhere "their natural tendency" was toward what (214)?

2. Who was the Chicago Defender founder who became one of the first Black millionaires?

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

4. When did Nobel Laureate Gunnar Mydral produce a study of race relations?

5. In what Black newspaper did T. Thomas Fortune run and that W. E. B. Du Bois began his publishing career?

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