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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 is the title of the controversial essay W. E. B. Du Bois published in The Crisis in January of 1934?
(a) "The Negro Way."
(b) "The Primitive Mind."
(c) "Segregation."
(d) "Integration."

2. When was To Kill a Mockingbird published?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1961.

3. When did the Congress of Industrial Organizations emerge?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1956.

4. How many times more likely are Black people to be incarcerated in comparison with their White counterparts?
(a) Three times more likely.
(b) Five times more likely.
(c) Two times more likely.
(d) Eight times more likely.

5. What Swedish Enlightenment thinker developed early systems of human and animal classification that distinguished humans into four separate racial species in 1735?
(a) Samuel Sewall.
(b) Carl Linnaeus.
(c) Aphra Behn.
(d) Morgan Godwyn.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Our Brother in Black?

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

3. Who was the Quaker founder and editor of the Genius of Universal Emancipation?

4. 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?

5. What theory did Aristotle develop to justify Greek superiority?

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