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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 directed the film Malcolm X?
(a) Robert Abbott.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Spike Lee.
(d) Bobby Seale.

2. What newspaper is described as having had the headline "Disaster in the Making: Crack Babies Start to Grow Up"?
(a) The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Chesapeake Tribune.
(d) The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

3. Where did Angela Davis earn her BA?
(a) Howard University.
(b) Brandeis University.
(c) Brown University.
(d) Rutgers University.

4. How many Union soldiers did General Sherman lead in the fabled March to the Sea?
(a) 40,000.
(b) 30,000.
(c) 70,000.
(d) 60,000.

5. Where was George Wallace governor?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Texas.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Arkansas.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Peace Corps established?

2. What year was it when Angela Davis's friends were killed in a church bombing in her hometown?

3. When did MIT's campus host "Black Women in the Academy: Defending Our Name" (453)?

4. Who was Jefferson Davies's vice president of the Confederate States of America?

5. Where did W. E. B. Du Bois attend college?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did the issues of race change after Lincoln's assassination?

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

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