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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where was Woodrow Wilson born?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Virginia.

5. Who wrote Tarzan of the Apes?
(a) Edgar Rice Burroughs.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Thomas Dixon.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

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

7. Where did W. E. B. Du Bois attend college?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Fisk University.
(d) Princeton University.

8. Who wrote Two Nations, Black & White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal?
(a) Robert Abbott.
(b) Andrew Hacker.
(c) James Elbert Cutler.
(d) Bobby Seale.

9. When was Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka decided?
(a) January 1, 1940.
(b) May 17, 1954.
(c) January 7, 1962.
(d) May 12, 1959.

10. Who were the nine Black teenagers falsely convicted in 1931 in Alabama of gang-raping two women on a train?
(a) The Cleveland Boys.
(b) The Montgomery Nine.
(c) The Birmingham Nine.
(d) The Scottsboro Boys.

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

12. When did W. E. B. Du Bois publish Dusk of Dawn?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1915.

13. Who was W. E. B. Du Bois's half brother who was born out of wedlock?
(a) Henry.
(b) Paul.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Adelbert.

14. Who was the only woman in Franklin Roosevelt's "Black cabinet"?
(a) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(b) Alexandra Stephens.
(c) Mary Silvina Burghardt.
(d) Mary McLeod Bethune.

15. Who raised W. E. B. Du Bois?
(a) Mary Silvina Burghardt.
(b) Sally Hemings.
(c) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(d) Anna Williams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was W. E. B. Du Bois pushed out of the NAACP in 1936?

2. When did the U.S. Supreme Court declare the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional?

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

4. Who wrote The Conscience of a Conservative?

5. When did MIT's campus host "Black Women in the Academy: Defending Our Name" (453)?

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