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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 was the only woman in Franklin Roosevelt's "Black cabinet"?
(a) Alexandra Stephens.
(b) Mary McLeod Bethune.
(c) Mary Silvina Burghardt.
(d) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.

2. When was the Peace Corps established?
(a) March 1, 1961.
(b) January 21, 1970.
(c) April 9, 1950.
(d) January 1, 1965.

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

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

5. Where was Franz Boas from?
(a) Spain.
(b) Germany.
(c) Portugal.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did General Lee's army surrender, ending the Civil War?

2. Why was W. E. B. Du Bois pushed out of the NAACP in 1936?

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

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

5. When was To Kill a Mockingbird published?

Short Essay Questions

1. What discussion does the author make regarding The Cosby Show?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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