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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. When did W. E. B. Du Bois graduate from Harvard?
(a) June 25, 1890.
(b) February 23, 1868.
(c) January 7, 1890.
(d) April 15, 1861.

2. 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 four.
(b) One in three.
(c) One in six.
(d) One in ten.

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

4. When was the modern mechanical cotton gin invented?
(a) 1718.
(b) 1794.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1802.

5. Who wrote the short story collection In Ole Virginia, or Marse Chan and Others in 1887?
(a) Henry Morton Stanley.
(b) Henry W. Grady.
(c) Thomas Nelson Page.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York?

2. Where did W. E. B. Du Bois attend college?

3. 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?

4. What group described by the author in the Prologue "has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities" (2)?

5. Who issued his Reconstruction proclamations on May 29, 1865, deflating the hopes of civil rights activists?

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