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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. What was declared in the decision of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka?
(a) Schools should be separate but equal.
(b) Black Americans should be able to vote.
(c) School segregation was unconstitutional.
(d) School segregation was constitutional.

12. With what co-founder of the NAACP did W. E. B. Du Bois butt heads?
(a) Thomas Dixon.
(b) Oswald Garrison Villard.
(c) James Elbert Cutler.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

13. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
(a) January 1, 1863.
(b) April 15, 1861.
(c) June 25, 1890.
(d) February 23, 1868.

14. Who wrote The Clansmen?
(a) Thomas Dixon.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Robert Abbott.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did members of the House pass the Thirteenth Amendment?

2. When did Theodore Roosevelt order the dishonerable discharge of 167 Black soldiers in the 25th Infantry Regiment?

3. When did W. E. B. Du Bois publish Dusk of Dawn?

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

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

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