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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) 1965.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1969.

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

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

4. When did W. E. B. Du Bois publish Dusk of Dawn?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1943.

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

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

7. Who issued his Reconstruction proclamations on May 29, 1865, deflating the hopes of civil rights activists?
(a) Alexander Stephens.
(b) Thaddeus Stevens.
(c) Andrew Johnson.
(d) Hendrik Cesars.

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

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

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

11. When did President Johnson sign the Voting Rights Act?
(a) May 17, 1954.
(b) March 26, 1964.
(c) February 21, 1965.
(d) August 6, 1965.

12. Who wrote Lynch Law?
(a) James Elbert Cutler.
(b) Thomas Dixon.
(c) Robert Abbott.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

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

14. Who knocked out Tommy Burns in Australia in 1908?
(a) Thomas Dixon.
(b) Jack Johnson.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) James Elbert Cutler.

15. Who is the author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism?
(a) Robert Abbott.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Bobby Seale.
(d) Derrick Bell.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who filmed the brutal attack of Rodney King?

3. When did the U.S. Supreme Court declare the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional?

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

5. When was Malcolm X assassinated?

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