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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 20 - 23).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What initiative did President Franklin D. Roosevelt implement in the 1930s?
(a) The New Deal.
(b) The End Deal.
(c) The Spring Deal.
(d) The Prosperity Deal.

2. What problem did Malcolm X. have with the Civil Rights Bill?
(a) He thought it was too radical.
(b) He thought it would not be enforced.
(c) He thought it did not go far enough.
(d) He thought there was a Trojan Horse in it somewhere.

3. Which new non-violent civil rights group had been established by the early 1960s?
(a) The Black Student Unions Unite.
(b) The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
(c) The Black Power Non-Violent Committee.
(d) The Student Civil Rights Board.

4. What did Gabriel and Nancy Prosser do as explained in Chapter 10?
(a) Planned a failed slave rebellion.
(b) Argued a case before the Supreme Court.
(c) Wrote a book about slavery.
(d) Were the first black couple to own their own land.

5. Which scientist in Chapter 12, the father of American anthropology, measured skulls as an indicator of intelligence?
(a) Michael Morton.
(b) Jefferson Morton.
(c) Marshall Morton.
(d) Samuel Morton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Pennsylvania congressman fought for redistribution of land to award to former slaves after the Civil War?

2. Where did Thomas Jefferson go upon his retirement from public life?

3. What organization did Marcus Garvey start in Harlem?

4. Which of the following famous lines did Thomas Jefferson pen in the Declaration of Independence?

5. Where was Marcus Garvey originally from before coming to the U.S.?

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