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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did the First Battle of Bull run take place in northern Virginia?
(a) April 15, 1861.
(b) December 24, 1860.
(c) July 21, 1861.
(d) March 6, 1857.

3. In what Black newspaper did T. Thomas Fortune run and that W. E. B. Du Bois began his publishing career?
(a) The Philadelphia Enquirer.
(b) The New York Post.
(c) The Boston Sun.
(d) The New York Globe.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who gave Malcolm X a eulogy praising him as "our shining black prince" (389)?
(a) Ossie Davis.
(b) Barry Goldwater.
(c) James Elbert Cutler.
(d) Walter White.

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

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

13. When was the verdict read in the O. J. Simpson trial?
(a) June 14, 1990.
(b) October 3, 1995.
(c) October 3, 1992.
(d) September 20, 1984.

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

15. What act was passed in 1861 that declared that slave holders forfeited their ownership of any property, including slaves, used by the Confederate Army?
(a) The Immigration Act.
(b) The Emancipation Act.
(c) The Naturalization Act.
(d) The Confiscation Act.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was John Brown's grandfather?

2. Where did Angela Davis earn her BA?

3. Where did W. E. B. Du Bois attend college?

4. What character takes on the name "Tarzan" in Tarzan of the Apes?

5. Who was the Chicago Defender founder who became one of the first Black millionaires?

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