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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. When did the Supreme Court rule in the McCleskey v. Kemp case?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1977.

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

3. What was declared in the decision of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka?
(a) Black Americans should be able to vote.
(b) School segregation was constitutional.
(c) Schools should be separate but equal.
(d) School segregation was unconstitutional.

4. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
(a) April 15, 1861.
(b) February 23, 1868.
(c) January 1, 1863.
(d) June 25, 1890.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What act was passed in 1861 that declared that slave holders forfeited their ownership of any property, including slaves, used by the Confederate Army?

2. When did W. E. B. Du Bois graduate from Harvard?

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

4. Who proposed the redistribution of 400 million acres owned by the wealthiest 10 percent of southerners be redistributed in September of 1865?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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