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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was one of Angela Davis's favorite authors?
(a) Charlie Ross.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Toni Morrison.
(d) James Baldwin.

3. 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) Judith Larin.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Rendell Kenny.

4. Who did the Dixiecrats run for President in the late 1940s?
(a) John C. Calhoun.
(b) Robert Baker.
(c) Jesse Helms.
(d) Strom Thurmond.

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

6. Which Supreme Court case ruled that school segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?
(a) Brown v. Board of Education.
(b) Roe v. Wade.
(c) Shelley v. Kramer.
(d) Scott v. Wisconsin.

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

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

9. Which socialist thinker inspired W.E.B. Du Bois's thinking later in life?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) Percy Wilson.
(c) Joseph Stalin.
(d) Karl Marx.

10. 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.

11. Which movie in the 1960s do Reynolds and Kendi compare to Tarzan and The Birth of a Nation?
(a) Sankofa.
(b) Planet of the Apes.
(c) Zartura.
(d) Slash.

12. Which former Governor of Alabama ran for office in the 1960s on a platform of overt support for segregation?
(a) Major Grenet.
(b) Marshall Bealleau.
(c) Robert Frendi.
(d) George Wallace.

13. What did a New York Times editorial say about Malcolm X. in the wake of his death?
(a) That he would be remembered as a student of non-violence.
(b) That he had relied too much on charisma.
(c) That he should never have converted to Judaism.
(d) That his life was strangely and pitifully wasted.

14. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe Du Bois?
(a) As a hyper-intellectual golden child.
(b) As a student of history.
(c) As a segregationist.
(d) As a product of the Tuskegee Institute.

15. Which of the following was one of Abraham Lincoln's monikers?
(a) The Great Emancipator.
(b) The Great Deal Maker.
(c) The Great Debater.
(d) The Great Tea Maker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which famous Black novelist do Reynolds and Kendo point out was notably not invited to speak at the March on Washington?

2. Who did Du Bois ask to come speak at Atlanta University, where he was teaching, in 1906?

3. Which book was the film The Birth of a Nation based upon?

4. What organization did Marcus Garvey start in Harlem?

5. Who was the main female character in Tarzan?

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