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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Mis-Education of the Negro?
(a) Carter G. Woodson.
(b) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(c) Walter White.
(d) Henry W. Grady.

2. When did Matthew Butler and John Tyler Morgan introduce a congressional bill to fund Black emigration to Africa?
(a) January 1, 1863.
(b) June 25, 1890.
(c) January 7, 1890.
(d) February 23, 1868.

3. With what co-founder of the NAACP did W. E. B. Du Bois butt heads?
(a) Thomas Dixon.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Oswald Garrison Villard.

4. What was Franz Boas's 1911 magnum opus?
(a) The Journey through Africa.
(b) The Mind of Primitive Man.
(c) Minds and Matter.
(d) The Archeology of Ancient Greece.

5. When did the Supreme Court rule in the McCleskey v. Kemp case?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1990.

6. Where was Franz Boas from?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) Spain.
(d) Portugal.

7. Who gave Malcolm X a eulogy praising him as "our shining black prince" (389)?
(a) Barry Goldwater.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Walter White.
(d) Ossie Davis.

8. What does AFIC stand for?
(a) The American Farmers' Insurance Commission.
(b) The American Fascist Industrialist Convention.
(c) The American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission.
(d) The American Financial Investigation Commission.

9. When was the verdict read in the O. J. Simpson trial?
(a) September 20, 1984.
(b) June 14, 1990.
(c) October 3, 1992.
(d) October 3, 1995.

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

11. Where was George Wallace governor?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Texas.
(d) Arkansas.

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

13. Why was W. E. B. Du Bois pushed out of the NAACP in 1936?
(a) For promoting assimilation.
(b) For promoting a return to slavery.
(c) For promoting integration.
(d) For promoting Black empowerment.

14. Who wrote Through the Dark Continent in 1878?
(a) Henry W. Grady.
(b) Frances Maria Lloyd.
(c) Henry Morton Stanley.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

15. By what percentage did "Americans believe that racial discrimination had harmed the U.S. reputation abroad in 1963" (376)?
(a) 25%.
(b) 67%.
(c) 54%.
(d) 78%.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was declared in the decision of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka?

3. Where was Stokely Carmicheal born?

4. What act was passed in 1861 that declared that slave holders forfeited their ownership of any property, including slaves, used by the Confederate Army?

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

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