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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. Which white boxer did some Whites have hope would beat the best boxer in America in the early 1900s, who was Black?
(a) Joseph Memory.
(b) James J. Jeffries.
(c) Bob Barkley.
(d) Mitchell Renderson.

2. Who did Du Bois ask to come speak at Atlanta University, where he was teaching, in 1906?
(a) Nikola Tesla.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Frank Boas.
(d) Marshall Michbein.

3. Which young Black girl had extraordinary talents as a poet in the 1700s in America?
(a) Phyllis Wheatley.
(b) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(c) Sojourner Truth.
(d) Harriet Tubman.

4. Who immigrated from Germany to America in 1886 because of anti-Jewish persecution in Chapter 15?
(a) Nikola Tesla.
(b) Marshall Michbein.
(c) Franz Boas.
(d) Albert Einstein.

5. Which of the following books did Thomas Jefferson write?
(a) Independence Days.
(b) Handbook for Future Revolutionaries.
(c) Notes on the State of Virginia.
(d) The Real History of Paul Revere's Ride.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Stokely Carmichael born?

2. Which territory did Thomas Jefferson purchase from the French early in his presidency?

3. Who was the famously racist White police chief in Birmingham Alabama in 1963?

4. Which former Governor of Alabama ran for office in the 1960s on a platform of overt support for segregation?

5. What do Reynolds and Kendi say Thomas Jefferson might have been the first White person to say?

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