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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. About whom did George H. W. Bush's campaign release an ad, criticizing his opponent for granting "weekend passes from prison" in the 1988 election (441)?

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

3. Who gave Malcolm X a eulogy praising him as "our shining black prince" (389)?

4. Who was John Brown's grandfather?

5. When did the U.S. Supreme Court declare the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What change did Malcolm X experience during his trip to Mecca in 1963?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss Thomas Jefferson and his stances on slavery and race. How did Jefferson's childhood and family help to shape his views on slavery? What were the impacts of Jefferson's Presidency on slavery and race in America? What ironies does the author point out regarding Jefferson's Declaration of Independence?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the life, career, and works of Angela Davis. When and where was Davis born? How did this setting influence Davis's later life and career? What were the inciting moments that motivated Davis as an activist?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the contemporary climate of racism in America and how this climate inspired Ibram X. Kendi's writing of Stamped from the Beginning. What examples of police shootings, trials, and activist movements does Kendi describe in the Prologue? In what ways have these events shaped contemporary society?

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