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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does CORE stand for?

2. When did Matthew Butler and John Tyler Morgan introduce a congressional bill to fund Black emigration to Africa?

3. Who wrote the 1990 book Black Feminist Thought?

4. When did MIT's campus host "Black Women in the Academy: Defending Our Name" (453)?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe climate theory in regards to race. When did this theory emerge? Where and from whom did it emerge? How was climate theory used to justify racism?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the life and the impressions of Phillis Wheatley. When and where was Wheatley born and raised? What made Wheatley stand out as a slave? In what ways was her uniqueness exploited and why?

Essay Topic 3

What were the impacts of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? What backlash came with the act? How did the act influence the Black vote? What powers were given to enforce the act?

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