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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What year was it when Angela Davis's friends were killed in a church bombing in her hometown?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1969.

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

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

5. When did the Supreme Court rule in the McCleskey v. Kemp case?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1990.

6. When did Matthew Butler and John Tyler Morgan introduce a congressional bill to fund Black emigration to Africa?
(a) January 1, 1863.
(b) February 23, 1868.
(c) June 25, 1890.
(d) January 7, 1890.

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

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

9. Where was Woodrow Wilson born?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Mississippi.

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

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

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

13. When was the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union issued?
(a) April 17, 1855.
(b) March 6, 1857.
(c) December 24, 1860.
(d) July 4, 1862.

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

15. Where was George Wallace governor?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Texas.
(d) Louisiana.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what percentage did "Americans believe that racial discrimination had harmed the U.S. reputation abroad in 1963" (376)?

2. Who was the only woman in Franklin Roosevelt's "Black cabinet"?

3. When was the verdict read in the O. J. Simpson trial?

4. Who wrote Lynch Law?

5. Who did George H. W. Bush run against for President in 1988?

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