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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the Chicago Defender founder who became one of the first Black millionaires?
(a) Thomas Dixon.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Robert Abbott.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

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

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

4. What character takes on the name "Tarzan" in Tarzan of the Apes?
(a) Samuel Sewall.
(b) Thomas Dixon.
(c) John Clayton.
(d) James Elbert Cutler.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?

2. In what Black newspaper did T. Thomas Fortune run and that W. E. B. Du Bois began his publishing career?

3. Where was George Wallace governor?

4. Who gave Malcolm X a eulogy praising him as "our shining black prince" (389)?

5. When did W. E. B. Du Bois graduate from Harvard?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the impacts of the War on Drugs on the racist issues in America?

2. Who was Franz Boas and what did he present at the Atlanta University Commencement Address that shocked his audience?

3. Why is the issue of land distribution following the Civil War significant?

4. What change did Malcolm X experience during his trip to Mecca in 1963?

5. What response did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 garner?

6. What impacts did the women's suffrage movement have on the Black community?

7. How had W. E. B. Du Bois' views changed by 1933? Why?

8. What were the "race-veiled" voting restrictions that emerged in the 1890s in the South (273)?

9. How were Black Americans affected by the New Deal?

10. When did the Montgomery Bus Boycott take place and what were its impacts?

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