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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 new executive secretary of the NAACP in 1933?
(a) Henry W. Grady.
(b) Alexander Stephens.
(c) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(d) Walter White.

2. When did Jefferson Davis take the presidential oath of the new Confederate States of America?
(a) February, 1861.
(b) March, 1857.
(c) July, 1865.
(d) June, 1860.

3. Who was the only woman in Franklin Roosevelt's "Black cabinet"?
(a) Mary McLeod Bethune.
(b) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(c) Mary Silvina Burghardt.
(d) Alexandra Stephens.

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

5. Where was Woodrow Wilson born?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Two Nations, Black & White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal?

2. Who wrote Lynch Law?

3. When was the Peace Corps established?

4. When did MIT's campus host "Black Women in the Academy: Defending Our Name" (453)?

5. Who was the Chicago Defender founder who became one of the first Black millionaires?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Angela Davis? What led Davis to activism?

3. What is the significance of Jack Johnson historically?

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

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

6. What is eugenics and how does it apply to racism?

7. What significance does the author place on Tarzan of the Apes?

8. What discussion does the author make regarding The Cosby Show?

9. What was the significance of the release of the Human Genome Project results in 2000?

10. When and where was W. E. B. Du Bois born and raised? What made him unique?

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