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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 20 - 23).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which Supreme Court case ruled that school segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?
(a) Shelley v. Kramer.
(b) Brown v. Board of Education.
(c) Scott v. Wisconsin.
(d) Roe v. Wade.

2. What did Gabriel and Nancy Prosser do as explained in Chapter 10?
(a) Planned a failed slave rebellion.
(b) Wrote a book about slavery.
(c) Were the first black couple to own their own land.
(d) Argued a case before the Supreme Court.

3. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(b) Micheline Stowe.
(c) Tom Roberts.
(d) Phillis Wheatley.

4. What did the Puritans stipulate at the opening of the first U.S. university?
(a) Greek and Latin texts could not be disputed.
(b) Women were allowed to attend, but only in small numbers.
(c) Blacks were allowed to attend as long as they worked at the university, too.
(d) All the professors had to be priests.

5. What was the first university to be opened in the U.S.?
(a) University of Pennsylvania.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) University of Virginia.
(d) Michigan University.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Curse Theory say about Africans?

2. Where did W.E.B Du Bois go to college?

3. What do Reynolds and Kendi say Carmichael would rather be called than "afraid"?

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

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

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