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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. When did Ronald Reagan lose the presidential nomination to Gerald Ford?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1976.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1988.

2. Who was brutally beaten by Los Angeles police during a traffic stop in 1991?
(a) James Joyner.
(b) Rodney King.
(c) Mitchell Render.
(d) Robert Karl.

3. When is Black History Month in the U.S.?
(a) April.
(b) August.
(c) February.
(d) December.

4. What do assimilationists think about combatting racism?
(a) The need to change people's minds through religion.
(b) They think Black people need to read more White authors.
(c) They think Black people need to transform themselves to become more like White people.
(d) They need to transform people's views of racism through pop culture.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gabriel and Nancy Prosser do as explained in Chapter 10?

2. Which influential Native American war leader was killed in 1676?

3. What organization did Marcus Garvey start in Harlem?

4. Which university were the four Black freshman from who started the original lunch-counter sit-in at Woolworth's in 1960?

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

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