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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which set of racist laws became enacted in the U.S. following the Civil War?
(a) Sunday laws.
(b) Jim Crow laws.
(c) Johnson laws.
(d) Puritan laws.

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

3. When was the Voting Rights Act passed?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1965.

4. Where was Marcus Garvey originally from before coming to the U.S.?
(a) Jamaica.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Senegal.
(d) Mexico.

5. Which book was the film The Birth of a Nation based upon?
(a) Tarzan.
(b) Shane.
(c) Westerworld.
(d) The Clansman.

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

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

8. What was the title of James Baldwin's 1962 activist manifesto?
(a) The Leftover Fire.
(b) The Fire Next Time.
(c) Nights of Fire.
(d) Smoke Before Fire.

9. Who wrote a biography of John Brown?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) Phillis Wheatley.

10. What did Andrew Johnson do to a lot of Lincoln's promises?
(a) Reversed them.
(b) Reinstated slavery as legal in all states.
(c) Altered them and made them his own to the benefit of Blacks.
(d) Built on them.

11. Which famous Black novelist do Reynolds and Kendo point out was notably not invited to speak at the March on Washington?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) James Baldwin.
(d) Zadie Smith.

12. Who played the title character in the movie Rocky?
(a) Mark Ruffalo.
(b) Brad Pitt.
(c) Sylvester Stallone.
(d) Don Johnson.

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

14. When was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?
(a) March 10, 1970.
(b) April 4, 1968.
(c) August 9, 1973.
(d) January 3, 1972.

15. What was W.E.B. Du Bois the "king" of, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
(a) Antiracism.
(b) Education.
(c) Uplift suasion.
(d) Segregation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which new non-violent civil rights group had been established by the early 1960s?

2. When did Stokely Carmichael first come to the United States?

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

4. What did a New York Times editorial say about Malcolm X. in the wake of his death?

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

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