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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which president urged Congress to implement a civil rights act in 1948?
(a) Harry Truman.
(b) George H.W. Bush.
(c) Bill Clinton.
(d) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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

3. What racist film did Woodrow Wilson screen at the White House?
(a) The Birth of a Nation.
(b) Tarzan.
(c) Black KKKlansman.
(d) Spaghetti Western.

4. What movement sprouted up alongside Carmichael's teachings?
(a) The Black Pride Movement.
(b) The Black Underground Movement.
(c) The Black Panther Party for Self Defense.
(d) The Velvet Underground Movement.

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

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

7. What did the Fifteenth Amendment allow for?
(a) No one could be prohibited from voting due to race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
(b) Blacks men could vote, but Black women could not.
(c) Blacks could vote after reaching the age of 30.
(d) Blacks had to pass a literacy test before voting.

8. Which new non-violent civil rights group had been established by the early 1960s?
(a) The Black Student Unions Unite.
(b) The Black Power Non-Violent Committee.
(c) The Student Civil Rights Board.
(d) The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.

9. What was the period in history following the Civil War in the U.S. called?
(a) Reconstruction.
(b) Reveling.
(c) Refinancing.
(d) Rebooting.

10. What was Abraham Lincoln's most famous moniker?
(a) Famous Abe.
(b) Abolitionist Abe.
(c) Honest Abe.
(d) Tricky Abe.

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

12. What institution did Booker T. Washington attend?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) The Tuskegee Institute.

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

14. What famous speech did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver at the close of the March on Washington?
(a) The Prophetic Alley speech.
(b) The I Have a Job speech.
(c) The Equal Rights Act speech.
(d) The I Have a Dream speech.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the phrase Reynolds and Kendi use to describe Blacks who returned to America from Europe in 1919 after fighting in WWI?

2. What organization did Marcus Garvey start in Harlem?

3. What do Reynolds and Kendi say racist White people and the White media heard from Carmichael's new phrase?

4. What was W.E.B. Du Bois the "king" of, according to Reynolds and Kendi?

5. Which socialist thinker inspired W.E.B. Du Bois's thinking later in life?

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