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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 was the first thing Marcus Garvey did upon arriving in New York in 1916?
(a) Run for mayor.
(b) Find a place where he could legally buy liquor.
(c) Visit the NAACP office.
(d) FInd the SNCC office.

2. In which year did President Woodrow Wilson win the U.S. presidency?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1926.

3. Where did violence start to occur immediately after the signing of the Voting Rights Act, according to Reynolds and Kendi in Chapter 22?
(a) The Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.
(b) The north side of Houston.
(c) The South Side of East Bend.
(d) The Greenfield neighborhood of Chicago.

4. Which of the following famous lines did Thomas Jefferson pen in the Declaration of Independence?
(a) The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
(b) All men are created equal.
(c) This day will live in infamy.
(d) Four score and seven years ago.

5. What state was admitted to the Union in 1820 as a free state?
(a) Massachusetts.
(b) Maine.
(c) Vermont.
(d) Connecticut.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which book was the film The Birth of a Nation based upon?

2. Who do Reynolds and Kendi argue was responsible for emancipating Black people?

3. What famous speech did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver at the close of the March on Washington?

4. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

5. When was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?

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