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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 wrote Through the Dark Continent in 1878?
(a) Henry Morton Stanley.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) Henry W. Grady.
(d) Frances Maria Lloyd.

2. Who was John Brown's grandfather?
(a) Thomas Dixon.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) William Lloyd Garrison.

3. Who did W. E. B. Du Bois offer as a model for Black leadership?
(a) Henry W. Grady.
(b) Henry Morton Stanley.
(c) Otto von Bismarck.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka decided?

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

4. Where was George Wallace governor?

5. When was the verdict read in the O. J. Simpson trial?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. When did the Black Power movement emerge and what did it hope to achieve?

6. What led Lincoln to enact the Emancipation Proclamation?

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

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

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

10. What is the significance of Jack Johnson historically?

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