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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. Who was the most famous Black man in America in 1908?
(a) Jack Johnson.
(b) Joe Louis.
(c) Mohammed Ali.
(d) Benny Harp.

2. Who do Reynolds and Kendi claim was the world's first racist?
(a) Wilhelm Winkle.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Adolf Hitler.
(d) Gomes Eanes de Zurara.

3. 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 Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.
(c) The South Side of East Bend.
(d) The Greenfield neighborhood of Chicago.

4. Who followed John F. Kennedy as president of the United States?
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Lyndon Baines Johnson.
(d) Gerald Ford.

5. What does Kendi confess to the reader about when he began writing Stamped?
(a) He did not want to write about racism.
(b) He had quite a few racist ideas himself.
(c) He had read all of Abraham Lincoln's writings.
(d) He had not read any of Thomas Jefferson's writings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Black America's "Double V Campaign?"

2. When did the Civil War end?

3. Who raided the U.S. Armory in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, in 1859?

4. What war did the Americans and British fight in the late 1700s?

5. What period of time did uplift suasion seem to be working as intended in?

(see the answer key)

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