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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 24 - Afterword).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Cotton Mather attend college?
(a) University of Pennsylvania.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) University of Michigan.
(d) Virginia Tech.

2. What organization did Marcus Garvey start in Harlem?
(a) The Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC).
(b) The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
(c) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
(d) The Fight For Black Rights Association (FFBRA).

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

4. When was the term "super predator" created?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2005.
(c) 1995.
(d) 2000.

5. Which jail did Martin Luther King Jr. write a letter from in the early 1960s?
(a) Markin's Jail.
(b) Birmingham Jail.
(c) Pickett's Jail.
(d) Fulsom Jail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tarzan's original name in the novel?

2. Who did the Dixiecrats run for President in the late 1940s?

3. Which of the following phrases does Reynolds put forth to the reader that he says his mother would often say?

4. Who did W.E.B. Du Bois give credit to in his graduation speech at Harvard?

5. Who immigrated from Germany to America in 1886 because of anti-Jewish persecution in Chapter 15?

(see the answer key)

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