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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. Who was Jefferson Davies's vice president of the Confederate States of America?

2. When did The Cosby Show premier?

3. Who wrote The Conscience of a Conservative?

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

5. Who was John Brown's grandfather?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When and where was W. E. B. Du Bois born and raised? What made him unique?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 concept of Carl Linnaeus's classification of humans into four separate species. How did this promote racist thought? What further hierarchies were then developed? What did they imply?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the various racist stereotypes that emerged regarding Black Americans during the Enlightenment era. In what ways were Blacks demeaned and exploited? To what means? How did this impact racial thought?

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