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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When was the Peace Corps established?
(a) January 21, 1970.
(b) April 9, 1950.
(c) March 1, 1961.
(d) January 1, 1965.

4. What was the nation's first center dedicated to improving the nation's genetic stock?
(a) The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
(b) The New York University Laboratory.
(c) The Heinz-Anderson Laboratory.
(d) The Grady Cutler Laboratory.

5. When did Abraham Lincoln raise the Union Army to put down the "insurrection" during the secession (215)?
(a) December 24, 1860.
(b) March 6, 1857.
(c) July 4, 1863.
(d) April 15, 1861.

6. Who was impeached on the day after W. E. B. Du Bois was born?
(a) Andrew Jackson.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Andrew Johnson.
(d) Lyndon B. Johnson.

7. 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.

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

9. 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) "Integration."
(c) "The Primitive Mind."
(d) "Segregation."

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

11. Who wrote Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York?
(a) Samuel Sewall.
(b) Thomas Dixon.
(c) Mary White Ovington.
(d) James Elbert Cutler.

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

13. Who was the new executive secretary of the NAACP in 1933?
(a) Walter White.
(b) Henry W. Grady.
(c) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(d) Alexander Stephens.

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

15. When did the Congress of Industrial Organizations emerge?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism?

2. Who was the chief propagandist of the New South in the 1880s?

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

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

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

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