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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 21-23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Our Brother in Black?
(a) Henry Morton Stanley.
(b) Atticus Haygood.
(c) Henry W. Grady.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

2. When did the Salem witch trials take place?
(a) 1692-1693.
(b) 1645-1647.
(c) 1565-1600.
(d) 1499-1501.

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

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

5. In what Black newspaper did T. Thomas Fortune run and that W. E. B. Du Bois began his publishing career?
(a) The New York Globe.
(b) The New York Post.
(c) The Boston Sun.
(d) The Philadelphia Enquirer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What church did Increase Mather helm?

2. What German author wrote History of the Art of Antiquity in 1764?

3. When did Thomas Jefferson's father die?

4. African Americans make up what percentage of the nation's prison population?

5. How many times more likely are Black people to be incarcerated in comparison with their White counterparts?

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