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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did George H. W. Bush run against for President in 1988?
(a) Ronald Reagan.
(b) Gerald Ford.
(c) Robert Abbott.
(d) Michael Dukakis.

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

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

4. Who wrote Lynch Law?
(a) Robert Abbott.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Thomas Dixon.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

5. Who proposed the redistribution of 400 million acres owned by the wealthiest 10 percent of southerners be redistributed in September of 1865?
(a) Alexander Stephens.
(b) Thaddeus Stevens.
(c) Andrew Johnson.
(d) Hendrik Cesars.

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

7. When did Henry W. Grady issue his official reply in Century Magazine to George Washington Cable and other antiracist critics?
(a) March, 1883.
(b) April, 1885.
(c) June, 1889.
(d) September, 1883.

8. Where is Angela Davis from?
(a) Birmingham, Alabama.
(b) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(c) Mempthis, Tennessee.
(d) Charlottesville, South Carolina.

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

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

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

12. Along with Huey P. Newton, who penned the ten-point platform for the newly founded Black Panther Party In 1966?
(a) Barry Goldwater.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Walter White.
(d) Bobby Seale.

13. Where was Stokely Carmicheal born?
(a) Trinidad.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Haiti.
(d) France.

14. Who wrote The Conscience of a Conservative?
(a) James Elbert Cutler.
(b) Barry Goldwater.
(c) Walter White.
(d) Bobby Seale.

15. When did the dissolution of the Soviet Union occur?
(a) December 25, 1991.
(b) September 12, 1993.
(c) October 3, 1995.
(d) September 20, 1984.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did W. E. B. Du Bois graduate from Harvard?

2. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

3. The author asserts that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the first important civil rights legislation since the Civil Rights Act of what year?

4. 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)?

5. Where was George Wallace governor?

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