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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. Who gave the speech from which the author derived the title Stamped from the Beginning?
(a) Darren Wilson.
(b) Dante Servin.
(c) Jefferson Davis.
(d) George Zimmerman.

2. Who was Jefferson Davies's vice president of the Confederate States of America?
(a) Alexander Stephens.
(b) Georges Cuvier.
(c) Benjamin Lundy.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

3. When did Harriet Beecher Stowe write Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) 1799.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1852.

4. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) January 1, 1863.
(b) March 6, 1857.
(c) April 15, 1884.
(d) July 21, 1861.

5. Who filmed the brutal attack of Rodney King?
(a) Robert Abbott.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Bobby Seale.
(d) George Holliday.

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization did Cotton Mather co-fund in 1683?

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

3. Who was the chief propagandist of the New South in the 1880s?

4. Who proposed the redistribution of 400 million acres owned by the wealthiest 10 percent of southerners be redistributed in September of 1865?

5. Who was the only woman in Franklin Roosevelt's "Black cabinet"?

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