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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 impeached on the day after W. E. B. Du Bois was born?
(a) Andrew Johnson.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

2. Who wrote Heredity in Relation to Eugenics?
(a) Samuel Sewall.
(b) Charles Davenport.
(c) Thomas Dixon.
(d) James Elbert Cutler.

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

4. 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.

5. When did General Lee's army surrender, ending the Civil War?
(a) July 21, 1861.
(b) April 9, 1865.
(c) January 31, 1865.
(d) January 1, 1863.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who directed the film Malcolm X?

2. Who issued his Reconstruction proclamations on May 29, 1865, deflating the hopes of civil rights activists?

3. When did The Cosby Show premier?

4. The author asserts that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the first important civil rights legislation since the Civil Rights Act of what year?

5. How many of the 1.1 million men, women, and children in the U.S. contraband camps died during the Civil War?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What led Lincoln to enact the Emancipation Proclamation?

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

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

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

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

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

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