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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What phrase did Carmichael introduce into the movement for Black equal rights?
(a) Black Power.
(b) Black Literature.
(c) Black Wisdom.
(d) Black Pride.

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

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

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

5. 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 Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.
(c) The north side of Houston.
(d) The Greenfield neighborhood of Chicago.

6. When was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
(a) August 1864.
(b) April 1865.
(c) January 1863.
(d) February 1862.

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

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

9. What state was Barry Goldwater a senator from?
(a) Alabama.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Arizona.

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

11. What was the first thing Marcus Garvey did upon arriving in New York in 1916?
(a) Visit the NAACP office.
(b) Run for mayor.
(c) FInd the SNCC office.
(d) Find a place where he could legally buy liquor.

12. What do Reynolds and Kendi say Carmichael would rather be called than "afraid"?
(a) Fragile.
(b) Foolish.
(c) Dead.
(d) Brave.

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

14. Who did Du Bois ask to come speak at Atlanta University, where he was teaching, in 1906?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Nikola Tesla.
(c) Frank Boas.
(d) Marshall Michbein.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the most famous Black man in America in 1908?

3. What movement sprouted up alongside Carmichael's teachings?

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

5. What famous speech did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver at the close of the March on Washington?

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