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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 Lynch Law?
(a) Robert Abbott.
(b) Thomas Dixon.
(c) James Elbert Cutler.
(d) Samuel Sewall.
2. By what percentage did "Americans believe that racial discrimination had harmed the U.S. reputation abroad in 1963" (376)?
(a) 25%.
(b) 54%.
(c) 67%.
(d) 78%.
3. Where did W. E. B. Du Bois attend college?
(a) Fisk University.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Yale University.
4. Who wrote Heredity in Relation to Eugenics?
(a) Thomas Dixon.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Charles Davenport.
5. Where was George Wallace governor?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Texas.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the nation's first center dedicated to improving the nation's genetic stock?
2. When was the Peace Corps established?
3. Who issued his Reconstruction proclamations on May 29, 1865, deflating the hopes of civil rights activists?
4. When was the New Deal enacted?
5. When did Jefferson Davis take the presidential oath of the new Confederate States of America?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were the impacts of the War on Drugs on the racist issues in America?
2. What change did Malcolm X experience during his trip to Mecca in 1963?
3. How had W. E. B. Du Bois' views changed by 1933? Why?
4. Who was Franz Boas and what did he present at the Atlanta University Commencement Address that shocked his audience?
5. What led to the L.A. Riots in the early 1990s? How did the riots impact race relations?
6. Why did the concept of segregation gain momentum at the turn of the twentieth century?
7. What were the "race-veiled" voting restrictions that emerged in the 1890s in the South (273)?
8. What significance does the author place on Tarzan of the Apes?
9. When did the Black Power movement emerge and what did it hope to achieve?
10. What led William Lloyd Garrison to say of Abraham Lincoln that he did not have "a drop of antislavery blood in his veins" (217)?
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