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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where is To Kill a Mockingbird set?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Virginia.

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

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

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

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

8. Who wrote the 1990 book Black Feminist Thought?
(a) Sophia Williams.
(b) Mary McLeod Bethune.
(c) Patricia Hill Collins.
(d) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.

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

10. What is the title of the controversial essay W. E. B. Du Bois published in The Crisis in January of 1934?
(a) "The Negro Way."
(b) "The Primitive Mind."
(c) "Integration."
(d) "Segregation."

11. 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.

12. Why was W. E. B. Du Bois pushed out of the NAACP in 1936?
(a) For promoting Black empowerment.
(b) For promoting integration.
(c) For promoting a return to slavery.
(d) For promoting assimilation.

13. About whom did George H. W. Bush's campaign release an ad, criticizing his opponent for granting "weekend passes from prison" in the 1988 election (441)?
(a) Willie Horton.
(b) Robert Abbott.
(c) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(d) James Elbert Cutler.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Lynch Law?

2. When did President Johnson sign the Voting Rights Act?

3. Who wrote The Clansmen?

4. What newspaper is described as having had the headline "Disaster in the Making: Crack Babies Start to Grow Up"?

5. Who wrote Our Brother in Black?

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