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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 wrote Heredity in Relation to Eugenics?

2. When was the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union issued?

3. When did the First Battle of Bull run take place in northern Virginia?

4. When did President Johnson sign the Voting Rights Act?

5. When did The Cosby Show premier?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss legislation and social perspectives on interracial marriage and partnerships in America throughout history. When were laws first enacted that prohibited interracial marriage? How was rape by slave owners different, and why?

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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