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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) Thomas Dixon.
(b) Charles Davenport.
(c) James Elbert Cutler.
(d) Samuel Sewall.

2. When did Matthew Butler and John Tyler Morgan introduce a congressional bill to fund Black emigration to Africa?
(a) January 1, 1863.
(b) February 23, 1868.
(c) January 7, 1890.
(d) June 25, 1890.

3. Who was W. E. B. Du Bois's half brother who was born out of wedlock?
(a) Adelbert.
(b) Henry.
(c) Paul.
(d) Thomas.

4. Who wrote Two Nations, Black & White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal?
(a) Robert Abbott.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Bobby Seale.
(d) Andrew Hacker.

5. When did the Congress of Industrial Organizations emerge?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1956.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the nation's first center dedicated to improving the nation's genetic stock?

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

3. When did Henry W. Grady issue his official reply in Century Magazine to George Washington Cable and other antiracist critics?

4. What does AFIC stand for?

5. Along with Huey P. Newton, who penned the ten-point platform for the newly founded Black Panther Party In 1966?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What led Lincoln to enact the Emancipation Proclamation?

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

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

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

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

8. What were the impacts of the War on Drugs on the racist issues in America?

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

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

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