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

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

3. When did Matthew Butler and John Tyler Morgan introduce a congressional bill to fund Black emigration to Africa?
(a) January 7, 1890.
(b) June 25, 1890.
(c) February 23, 1868.
(d) January 1, 1863.

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

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 the crack babies inevitably ended up addicted through life.
(c) That poverty was worse for kids than crack.
(d) That cigarette smoking was worse than crack for kids.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did General Lee's army surrender, ending the Civil War?

2. Why was W. E. B. Du Bois pushed out of the NAACP in 1936?

3. When did the Congress of Industrial Organizations emerge?

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

5. Who did W. E. B. Du Bois offer as a model for Black leadership?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did the concept of segregation gain momentum at the turn of the twentieth century?

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

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

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

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

9. What was the mission of the National Associatoin of Colored Women and when was this organization formed?

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

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