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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which former friend of Angela Davis's killed several people in a hostage situation in 1970?
(a) Jack Johnson.
(b) Robert Windham.
(c) Jonathan Jackson.
(d) Randall Holmes.

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

3. What initiative did President Franklin D. Roosevelt implement in the 1930s?
(a) The Spring Deal.
(b) The New Deal.
(c) The End Deal.
(d) The Prosperity Deal.

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

5. Who wrote Tarzan?
(a) Benny Hasterline.
(b) William Hastert.
(c) Frederick Mitchell.
(d) Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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

7. When did the Civil War end?
(a) January 1958.
(b) April 1865.
(c) March 1834.
(d) August 1868.

8. In what year did the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom take place?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1960.

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

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

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

12. What is Tarzan's original name in the novel?
(a) Tony Stark.
(b) John Clayton.
(c) Steve Rogers.
(d) David Banner.

13. What do Reynolds and Kendi say is interesting about the Brown v. Board of Education case that is rarely discussed?
(a) The Board of Education actually did want to desegregate schools.
(b) The case reversed several lower court decisions.
(c) It would be ten years after the case before Black children were actually allowed to attend predominantly White schools.
(d) The idea underlying the case decision is a fairly racist one.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the first thing Marcus Garvey did upon arriving in New York in 1916?

3. Which Supreme Court case ruled that school segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?

4. What institution did Booker T. Washington attend?

5. Who wrote the novel The Color Purple?

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