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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 were the nine Black teenagers falsely convicted in 1931 in Alabama of gang-raping two women on a train?
(a) The Cleveland Boys.
(b) The Montgomery Nine.
(c) The Scottsboro Boys.
(d) The Birmingham Nine.

2. How many of the 1.1 million men, women, and children in the U.S. contraband camps died during the Civil War?
(a) One in three.
(b) One in four.
(c) One in ten.
(d) One in six.

3. Who gave Malcolm X a eulogy praising him as "our shining black prince" (389)?
(a) Walter White.
(b) Ossie Davis.
(c) Barry Goldwater.
(d) James Elbert Cutler.

4. What does AFIC stand for?
(a) The American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission.
(b) The American Financial Investigation Commission.
(c) The American Farmers' Insurance Commission.
(d) The American Fascist Industrialist Convention.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Franz Boas's 1911 magnum opus?

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

3. When did the Supreme Court rule in the McCleskey v. Kemp case?

4. Who is the author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism?

5. When was the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union issued?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What led William Lloyd Garrison to say of Abraham Lincoln that he did not have "a drop of antislavery blood in his veins" (217)?

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

4. What led to the L.A. Riots in the early 1990s? How did the riots impact race relations?

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

6. What led Lincoln to enact the Emancipation Proclamation?

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

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

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

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

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