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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the novel The Color Purple?
(a) Kiley Reid.
(b) Alice Walker.
(c) Zadie Smith.
(d) Toni Morrison.

2. When did Stokely Carmichael first come to the United States?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1945.

3. When did the American Anti-Slavery Society disband?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1834.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1865.

4. What problem did Malcolm X. have with the Civil Rights Bill?
(a) He thought there was a Trojan Horse in it somewhere.
(b) He thought it did not go far enough.
(c) He thought it would not be enforced.
(d) He thought it was too radical.

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

6. Which white boxer did some Whites have hope would beat the best boxer in America in the early 1900s, who was Black?
(a) Mitchell Renderson.
(b) James J. Jeffries.
(c) Bob Barkley.
(d) Joseph Memory.

7. Who did W.E.B. Du Bois give credit to in his graduation speech at Harvard?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Jefferson Davis.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

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

9. Who wrote the 1892 pamphlet Southern Horros: Lynch Law in All Its Phases?
(a) Harriet Tubman.
(b) Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
(c) Phillis Wheatley.
(d) Harriet Beecher Stowe.

10. What terrible event resulted in the deaths of four Black children in Birmingham in 1963?
(a) A burning of a Black apartment building by White supremacists.
(b) A rally with guns held by White supremacists.
(c) The bombing of a church by White supremacists.
(d) A car crash caused by White supremacists.

11. Which leader did young activists who were frustrated with Martin Luther King Jr.'s messages of non-violent action in protest sometimes turn to?
(a) Rendell Kenny.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Judith Larin.
(d) Malcolm X.

12. Who was the main female character in Tarzan?
(a) Jane.
(b) Helen.
(c) Sally.
(d) Josephine.

13. Where was W.E.B. Du Bois raised?
(a) Missouri.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Maine.

14. What is the phrase Reynolds and Kendi use to describe Blacks who returned to America from Europe in 1919 after fighting in WWI?
(a) New Blacks.
(b) New Negroes.
(c) Mad Blacks.
(d) Enlightened Blacks.

15. Who do Reynolds and Kendi argue was responsible for emancipating Black people?
(a) Black people.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) James Madison.
(d) George Washington.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote a biography of John Brown?

2. What was a major problem with the Black Power movement, according to Reynolds and Kendi?

3. Which of the following was one of Abraham Lincoln's monikers?

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

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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