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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. What did the Great Compromise create?
(a) The Supreme Court.
(b) The Constitution.
(c) The Electoral College.
(d) The House and the Senate in the U.S.

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

3. Which university were the four Black freshman from who started the original lunch-counter sit-in at Woolworth's in 1960?
(a) Bowling Green University.
(b) University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
(c) University of Alabama.
(d) North Carolina A and T.

4. What was the title of James Baldwin's 1962 activist manifesto?
(a) Nights of Fire.
(b) The Leftover Fire.
(c) Smoke Before Fire.
(d) The Fire Next Time.

5. Where did Jefferson move in 1884?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Rome.
(d) Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the book The Bell Curve?

2. Where did Angela Davis begin teaching in 1968?

3. What was the title of the pamphlet David Walker wrote?

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

5. What book did Cotton Mather write?

(see the answer key)

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