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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 book was the film The Birth of a Nation based upon?
(a) The Clansman.
(b) Shane.
(c) Tarzan.
(d) Westerworld.

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

3. Which set of racist laws became enacted in the U.S. following the Civil War?
(a) Jim Crow laws.
(b) Sunday laws.
(c) Johnson laws.
(d) Puritan laws.

4. 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 north side of Houston.
(b) The Greenfield neighborhood of Chicago.
(c) The South Side of East Bend.
(d) The Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.

5. How old was Thomas Jefferson in 1776?
(a) 16.
(b) 40.
(c) 33.
(d) 76.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was elected U.S. president in 1988?

3. When was the Voting Rights Act passed?

4. Which jail did Martin Luther King Jr. write a letter from in the early 1960s?

5. Why did plantation owners show little interest in religiously converting slaves?

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