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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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) Schools should be separate but equal.
(d) School segregation was constitutional.

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

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

10. Who was John Brown's grandfather?
(a) Samuel Sewall.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) William Lloyd Garrison.
(d) Thomas Dixon.

11. The author asserts that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the first important civil rights legislation since the Civil Rights Act of what year?
(a) 1886.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1859.

12. Who raised W. E. B. Du Bois?
(a) Anna Williams.
(b) Sally Hemings.
(c) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(d) Mary Silvina Burghardt.

13. When was Malcolm X assassinated?
(a) May 17, 1954.
(b) August 6, 1965.
(c) February 21, 1965.
(d) March 26, 1964.

14. When did The Cosby Show premier?
(a) January 7, 1990.
(b) June 25, 1986.
(c) September 20, 1984.
(d) March 26, 1989.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Through the Dark Continent in 1878?

2. Where did Angela Davis earn her BA?

3. Who was Jefferson Davies's vice president of the Confederate States of America?

4. What finding did UCLA's Judy Howard come to in 2013 regarding the crack babies she studied between 1989 and 1992?

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

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