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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. 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)?
(a) Willie Horton.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(d) Robert Abbott.

4. When did MIT's campus host "Black Women in the Academy: Defending Our Name" (453)?
(a) September 20, 1984.
(b) January 13, 1994.
(c) October 3, 1995.
(d) October 3, 1995.

5. Who was the Chicago Defender founder who became one of the first Black millionaires?
(a) Samuel Sewall.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Robert Abbott.
(d) Thomas Dixon.

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

7. When did General Lee's army surrender, ending the Civil War?
(a) January 31, 1865.
(b) July 21, 1861.
(c) January 1, 1863.
(d) April 9, 1865.

8. Who knocked out Tommy Burns in Australia in 1908?
(a) Samuel Sewall.
(b) Jack Johnson.
(c) Thomas Dixon.
(d) James Elbert Cutler.

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

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

11. 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) Andrew Johnson.
(c) Hendrik Cesars.
(d) Thaddeus Stevens.

12. Who wrote the short story collection In Ole Virginia, or Marse Chan and Others in 1887?
(a) Thomas Nelson Page.
(b) Henry Morton Stanley.
(c) Henry W. Grady.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

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

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

15. When did Jefferson Davis take the presidential oath of the new Confederate States of America?
(a) June, 1860.
(b) February, 1861.
(c) July, 1865.
(d) March, 1857.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of the 1.1 million men, women, and children in the U.S. contraband camps died during the Civil War?

2. How many Union soldiers did General Sherman lead in the fabled March to the Sea?

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

4. When did Matthew Butler and John Tyler Morgan introduce a congressional bill to fund Black emigration to Africa?

5. Who wrote Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York?

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