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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which famous novel do Reynolds and Kendi mention in Chapter 20 and then quickly dismiss?
(a) Sankofa.
(b) Peyton Place.
(c) To Kill a Mockingbird.
(d) Zarthura.

2. What approach did Richard Nixon use in his 1968 run for the presidency?
(a) The Confederate Strategy.
(b) The Divide and Conquer Strategy.
(c) The Lame Duck Strategy.
(d) The Southern Strategy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Pennsylvania congressman fought for redistribution of land to award to former slaves after the Civil War?

2. Who beat Abraham Lincoln in a race for a Senate seat in 1858?

3. Which set of racist laws became enacted in the U.S. following the Civil War?

4. Which white boxer did some Whites have hope would beat the best boxer in America in the early 1900s, who was Black?

5. Who played the title character in the movie Rocky?

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