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

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

3. When was the New Deal enacted?
(a) 1940-1948.
(b) 1920-1929.
(c) 1933-1938.
(d) 1935-1939.

4. Who wrote Dark Ghetto?
(a) James Elbert Cutler.
(b) Barry Goldwater.
(c) Kenneth Clark.
(d) Walter White.

5. Who was Jefferson Davies's vice president of the Confederate States of America?
(a) Alexander Stephens.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) Georges Cuvier.
(d) Benjamin Lundy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did George H. W. Bush run against for President in 1988?

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

3. What was Franz Boas's 1911 magnum opus?

4. Who wrote Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York?

5. When did The Cosby Show premier?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the "race-veiled" voting restrictions that emerged in the 1890s in the South (273)?

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

3. What is eugenics and how does it apply to racism?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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