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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. What was Franz Boas's 1911 magnum opus?
(a) The Journey through Africa.
(b) The Mind of Primitive Man.
(c) Minds and Matter.
(d) The Archeology of Ancient Greece.

2. Who wrote The Mis-Education of the Negro?
(a) Henry W. Grady.
(b) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(c) Carter G. Woodson.
(d) Walter White.

3. Who is the author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism?
(a) Derrick Bell.
(b) Bobby Seale.
(c) Robert Abbott.
(d) James Elbert Cutler.

4. Where was Woodrow Wilson born?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Tennessee.

5. Who wrote Our Brother in Black?
(a) Henry Morton Stanley.
(b) Atticus Haygood.
(c) Henry W. Grady.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gave Malcolm X a eulogy praising him as "our shining black prince" (389)?

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

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

4. When did Theodore Roosevelt order the dishonerable discharge of 167 Black soldiers in the 25th Infantry Regiment?

5. Who raised W. E. B. Du Bois?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were Black Americans affected by the New Deal?

2. What response did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 garner?

3. What is the significance of Jack Johnson historically?

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

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

6. What led Lincoln to enact the Emancipation Proclamation?

7. When and where was W. E. B. Du Bois born and raised? What made him unique?

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

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

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

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