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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What newspaper is described as having had the headline "Disaster in the Making: Crack Babies Start to Grow Up"?
(a) The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
(b) The Chesapeake Tribune.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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

3. When was Malcolm X assassinated?
(a) August 6, 1965.
(b) March 26, 1964.
(c) May 17, 1954.
(d) February 21, 1965.

4. Who was the chief propagandist of the New South in the 1880s?
(a) Benjamin Lundy.
(b) Alexander Stephens.
(c) Henry W. Grady.
(d) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.

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

6. When did Abraham Lincoln raise the Union Army to put down the "insurrection" during the secession (215)?
(a) March 6, 1857.
(b) July 4, 1863.
(c) December 24, 1860.
(d) April 15, 1861.

7. Where is To Kill a Mockingbird set?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Virginia.

8. Who wrote Dark Ghetto?
(a) Walter White.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Kenneth Clark.
(d) Barry Goldwater.

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

10. In the Declaration of Causes issued by Florida's secessionists, they maintained that Blacks must be enslaved because everywhere "their natural tendency" was toward what (214)?
(a) "Thievery and abuse."
(b) "Rape and sexuality."
(c) "Idleness, vagrancy, and crime."
(d) "Rebellion and resistance."

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

12. What does MFDP stand for?
(a) Massachusetts Freedom Democratic Party.
(b) Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
(c) Memphis Freedom Democratic Party.
(d) Miami Freedom Democratic Party.

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

14. Who wrote Our Brother in Black?
(a) Atticus Haygood.
(b) Henry Morton Stanley.
(c) Henry W. Grady.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What U.S. state was central in the McCleskey v. Kemp case?

2. Who was impeached on the day after W. E. B. Du Bois was born?

3. When did the Supreme Court rule in the McCleskey v. Kemp case?

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

5. About whom did George H. W. Bush's campaign release an ad, criticizing his opponent for granting "weekend passes from prison" in the 1988 election (441)?

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