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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5: "Angela Davis," Chapters 34-37 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did President Johnson sign the Voting Rights Act?
(a) March 26, 1964.
(b) May 17, 1954.
(c) August 6, 1965.
(d) February 21, 1965.

2. What group described by the author in the Prologue "has blamed Black people themselves for the racial disparities" (2)?
(a) Abolitionists.
(b) Segregationists.
(c) Assimilationists.
(d) Antiracists.

3. Who issued his Reconstruction proclamations on May 29, 1865, deflating the hopes of civil rights activists?
(a) Hendrik Cesars.
(b) Alexander Stephens.
(c) Andrew Johnson.
(d) Thaddeus Stevens.

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

5. When was the first women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York?
(a) July, 1848.
(b) June, 1879.
(c) March, 1840.
(d) March, 1842.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Richard Mather come to America?

2. When was the Germantown Petition Against Slavery produced?

3. The author asserts that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the first important civil rights legislation since the Civil Rights Act of what year?

4. Where was George Wallace governor?

5. Who did W. E. B. Du Bois offer as a model for Black leadership?

(see the answer key)

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