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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 was declared in the decision of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka?
(a) Schools should be separate but equal.
(b) School segregation was constitutional.
(c) Black Americans should be able to vote.
(d) School segregation was unconstitutional.

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

3. Who wrote Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York?
(a) Thomas Dixon.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Mary White Ovington.

4. When was Cotton Mather born?
(a) 1663.
(b) 1623.
(c) 1701.
(d) 1659.

5. When did John Locke move to London to become the personal physician of Lord Cooper?
(a) 1689.
(b) 1599.
(c) 1667.
(d) 1702.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Rekia Boyd fatally shot?

2. Where did the Black revolt of September 8, 1791 take place?

3. What name was Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi given when he was released from slavery?

4. When did Theodore Roosevelt order the dishonerable discharge of 167 Black soldiers in the 25th Infantry Regiment?

5. When did minstrel shows emerge in the U.S.?

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