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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did W. E. B. Du Bois offer as a model for Black leadership?
(a) Henry Morton Stanley.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) Otto von Bismarck.
(d) Henry W. Grady.

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

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

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

5. What was Franz Boas's 1911 magnum opus?
(a) The Archeology of Ancient Greece.
(b) The Journey through Africa.
(c) Minds and Matter.
(d) The Mind of Primitive Man.

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

7. Who is the author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism?
(a) Robert Abbott.
(b) Derrick Bell.
(c) James Elbert Cutler.
(d) Bobby Seale.

8. By what percentage did "Americans believe that racial discrimination had harmed the U.S. reputation abroad in 1963" (376)?
(a) 25%.
(b) 54%.
(c) 78%.
(d) 67%.

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

10. What U.S. state was central in the McCleskey v. Kemp case?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Tennessee.

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

12. Who wrote Heredity in Relation to Eugenics?
(a) Thomas Dixon.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Charles Davenport.

13. How many Union soldiers did General Sherman lead in the fabled March to the Sea?
(a) 70,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 40,000.
(d) 60,000.

14. Who wrote Tarzan of the Apes?
(a) James Elbert Cutler.
(b) Edgar Rice Burroughs.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Thomas Dixon.

15. When was Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka decided?
(a) May 17, 1954.
(b) May 12, 1959.
(c) January 7, 1962.
(d) January 1, 1940.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who directed the film Malcolm X?

2. What does CORE stand for?

3. Who wrote the short story collection In Ole Virginia, or Marse Chan and Others in 1887?

4. Where is To Kill a Mockingbird set?

5. When did Abraham Lincoln raise the Union Army to put down the "insurrection" during the secession (215)?

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