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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Which university were the four Black freshman from who started the original lunch-counter sit-in at Woolworth's in 1960?
(a) North Carolina A and T.
(b) University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
(c) University of Alabama.
(d) Bowling Green University.

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

6. 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) Enlightened Blacks.
(c) New Negroes.
(d) Mad Blacks.

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

8. Who wrote Malcolm X.'s autobiography with him?
(a) James Baldwin.
(b) Toni Morrison.
(c) Alex Haley.
(d) Langston Hughes.

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

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

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

12. Which conflict happened during Abraham Lincoln's presidency?
(a) The Civil War.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Franco-Spanish War.
(d) World War I.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which former Governor of Alabama ran for office in the 1960s on a platform of overt support for segregation?

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

3. Where was W.E.B. Du Bois raised?

4. What institution did Booker T. Washington attend?

5. Which famous novel do Reynolds and Kendi mention in Chapter 20 and then quickly dismiss?

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