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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What act was passed in 1861 that declared that slave holders forfeited their ownership of any property, including slaves, used by the Confederate Army?
(a) The Emancipation Act.
(b) The Confiscation Act.
(c) The Naturalization Act.
(d) The Immigration Act.

2. When did the First Battle of Bull run take place in northern Virginia?
(a) December 24, 1860.
(b) July 21, 1861.
(c) March 6, 1857.
(d) April 15, 1861.

3. When did Theodore Roosevelt order the dishonerable discharge of 167 Black soldiers in the 25th Infantry Regiment?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1906.

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

5. What is the title of the controversial essay W. E. B. Du Bois published in The Crisis in January of 1934?
(a) "The Negro Way."
(b) "Segregation."
(c) "Integration."
(d) "The Primitive Mind."

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

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

8. When was the New Deal enacted?
(a) 1940-1948.
(b) 1920-1929.
(c) 1935-1939.
(d) 1933-1938.

9. Who was John Brown's grandfather?
(a) William Lloyd Garrison.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) Thomas Dixon.
(d) James Elbert Cutler.

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

11. What finding did UCLA's Judy Howard come to in 2013 regarding the crack babies she studied between 1989 and 1992?
(a) That the crack babies did not suffer long-lasting deformities.
(b) That poverty was worse for kids than crack.
(c) That the crack babies inevitably ended up addicted through life.
(d) That cigarette smoking was worse than crack for kids.

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

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

14. 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 St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
(c) The Chesapeake Tribune.
(d) The New York Times.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was W. E. B. Du Bois's half brother who was born out of wedlock?

2. When was Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka decided?

3. Where was George Wallace governor?

4. What was the nation's first center dedicated to improving the nation's genetic stock?

5. Who wrote The Conscience of a Conservative?

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