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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who proposed the redistribution of 400 million acres owned by the wealthiest 10 percent of southerners be redistributed in September of 1865?
(a) Hendrik Cesars.
(b) Alexander Stephens.
(c) Thaddeus Stevens.
(d) Andrew Johnson.

5. Who wrote Two Nations, Black & White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal?
(a) Andrew Hacker.
(b) Bobby Seale.
(c) James Elbert Cutler.
(d) Robert Abbott.

6. When did Abraham Lincoln raise the Union Army to put down the "insurrection" during the secession (215)?
(a) December 24, 1860.
(b) July 4, 1863.
(c) April 15, 1861.
(d) March 6, 1857.

7. What was the nation's first center dedicated to improving the nation's genetic stock?
(a) The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
(b) The New York University Laboratory.
(c) The Heinz-Anderson Laboratory.
(d) The Grady Cutler Laboratory.

8. How many of the 1.1 million men, women, and children in the U.S. contraband camps died during the Civil War?
(a) One in four.
(b) One in ten.
(c) One in three.
(d) One in six.

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

10. Who wrote the short story collection In Ole Virginia, or Marse Chan and Others in 1887?
(a) Samuel Sewall.
(b) Henry W. Grady.
(c) Thomas Nelson Page.
(d) Henry Morton Stanley.

11. When was the Peace Corps established?
(a) January 1, 1965.
(b) January 21, 1970.
(c) March 1, 1961.
(d) April 9, 1950.

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

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

14. What finding did UCLA's Judy Howard come to in 2013 regarding the crack babies she studied between 1989 and 1992?
(a) That cigarette smoking was worse than crack for kids.
(b) That the crack babies did not suffer long-lasting deformities.
(c) That the crack babies inevitably ended up addicted through life.
(d) That poverty was worse for kids than crack.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who filmed the brutal attack of Rodney King?

2. When did the dissolution of the Soviet Union occur?

3. Who wrote The Mis-Education of the Negro?

4. Who wrote Dark Ghetto?

5. Who is the author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism?

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