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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 Heredity in Relation to Eugenics?
(a) Samuel Sewall.
(b) Charles Davenport.
(c) Thomas Dixon.
(d) James Elbert Cutler.

2. Who wrote Lynch Law?
(a) James Elbert Cutler.
(b) Thomas Dixon.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Robert Abbott.

3. Who was the chief propagandist of the New South in the 1880s?
(a) Alexander Stephens.
(b) Benjamin Lundy.
(c) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(d) Henry W. Grady.

4. When did W. E. B. Du Bois publish Dusk of Dawn?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1943.

5. About whom did George H. W. Bush's campaign release an ad, criticizing his opponent for granting "weekend passes from prison" in the 1988 election (441)?
(a) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(b) Willie Horton.
(c) Robert Abbott.
(d) James Elbert Cutler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the controversial essay W. E. B. Du Bois published in The Crisis in January of 1934?

2. When did the U.S. Supreme Court declare the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional?

3. Where was George Wallace governor?

4. When did members of the House pass the Thirteenth Amendment?

5. Where is Angela Davis from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Jack Johnson historically?

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

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

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

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. How were Black Americans affected by the New Deal?

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

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

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

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