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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the U.S. Supreme Court declare the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1862.
(d) 1883.

2. What newspaper is described as having had the headline "Disaster in the Making: Crack Babies Start to Grow Up"?
(a) The Chesapeake Tribune.
(b) The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
(c) The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
(d) The New York Times.

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

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

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

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

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

8. When did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
(a) April 15, 1884.
(b) March 6, 1857.
(c) July 21, 1861.
(d) January 1, 1863.

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

10. Who wrote Dark Ghetto?
(a) James Elbert Cutler.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) Barry Goldwater.
(d) Walter White.

11. Where was Franz Boas from?
(a) France.
(b) Portugal.
(c) Germany.
(d) Spain.

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

13. Who filmed the brutal attack of Rodney King?
(a) Robert Abbott.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) George Holliday.
(d) Bobby Seale.

14. What does CORE stand for?
(a) Congress of Racial Equality.
(b) Company of Racial Equity.
(c) Considerations on Racial Equality.
(d) Conditions of Racial Equality.

15. Who directed the film Malcolm X?
(a) Bobby Seale.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Spike Lee.
(d) Robert Abbott.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did General Lee's army surrender, ending the Civil War?

2. Where was George Wallace governor?

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

4. When was the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union issued?

5. In the Declaration of Causes issued by Florida's secessionists, they maintained that Blacks must be enslaved because everywhere "their natural tendency" was toward what (214)?

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