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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) Shane.
(b) Tarzan.
(c) The Clansman.
(d) Westerworld.

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

3. Which Black Supreme Court justice did President George H.W. Bush appoint to replace Thurgood Marshall?
(a) James Browning.
(b) Mitchell Rendy.
(c) Robert Kinckle.
(d) Clarence Thomas.

4. What was the title of the pamphlet David Walker wrote?
(a) An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World.
(b) A Rumination on Benefits.
(c) A History of Slavery in the United States.
(d) A Fine Example of Friendship.

5. What religion did Cotton and Mather practice?
(a) Puritanism.
(b) Lutheranism.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Protestantism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous speech did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver at the close of the March on Washington?

2. When was the Civil Rights Act passed in the United States?

3. Which Supreme Court case ruled that courts could not enforce Whites-only real estate contracts to keep out migrants and stop housing desegregation?

4. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe Du Bois?

5. Which law did Bill Clinton introduce in 1994 that affected Blacks disproportionately and negatively?

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