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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 was Stokely Carmichael born?
(a) Senegal.
(b) Trinidad.
(c) Somalia.
(d) Mali.

2. Who bought some of the first slaves to come to America from Africa?
(a) Virginia Governor George Yeardley.
(b) Marshall Wellins.
(c) Cotton Mather.
(d) John Adams.

3. Who wrote Malcolm X.'s autobiography with him?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) Alex Haley.
(c) James Baldwin.
(d) Toni Morrison.

4. Who did W.E.B. Du Bois give credit to in his graduation speech at Harvard?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Jefferson Davis.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

5. When was the Civil Rights Act passed in the United States?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1968.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happened with the question of admitting Missouri as a state in the U.S. in the early 1800s?

3. Who is the brutal slave owner who has Tom killed in Uncle Tom's Cabin?

4. Where did Angela Davis go to study during her graduate years?

5. When did the First Great Awakening happen?

(see the answer key)

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