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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 the U.S. Supreme Court declare the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1883.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1862.

2. What abolitionist essay did John Woolman publish in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1752?
(a) Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes.
(b) The Christian Guide to Slavery Ownership.
(c) A Humanist Perspective on American Slavery.
(d) The Primitive Mind.

3. Who wrote the 1990 book Black Feminist Thought?
(a) Patricia Hill Collins.
(b) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(c) Sophia Williams.
(d) Mary McLeod Bethune.

4. Who wrote the treatise Commentary on Ephesians?
(a) Georges Cuvier.
(b) Thomas Bray.
(c) Morgan Godwyn.
(d) Paul Baynes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Harriet Beecher Stowe write Uncle Tom's Cabin?

3. What does MFDP stand for?

4. When did Spanish merchant Pedro de Las Casas settle in Hispaniola?

5. When did Jefferson Davis take the presidential oath of the new Confederate States of America?

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