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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 wrote The Conscience of a Conservative?
(a) Walter White.
(b) Bobby Seale.
(c) Barry Goldwater.
(d) James Elbert Cutler.

2. What publication did William Lloyd Garrison create and use to encourage "free Blacks to challenge 'every law which infringes on your rights'" (168)?
(a) The Liberator.
(b) The Shadow.
(c) The Gazette.
(d) The Pulse.

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

4. What was Phillis Wheatley named for?
(a) A river.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) A painting.
(d) A slave ship.

5. What was the name of Peter Jefferson's tobacco plantation?
(a) Grandwell.
(b) Land's End.
(c) Shadwell.
(d) Riverview.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Our Brother in Black?

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

3. Where is Angela Davis from?

4. When did Henry W. Grady issue his official reply in Century Magazine to George Washington Cable and other antiracist critics?

5. What Swedish Enlightenment thinker developed early systems of human and animal classification that distinguished humans into four separate racial species in 1735?

(see the answer key)

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