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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) Zarthura.
(b) Sankofa.
(c) To Kill a Mockingbird.
(d) Peyton Place.

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

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

4. Which Pennsylvania congressman fought for redistribution of land to award to former slaves after the Civil War?
(a) John Harrison.
(b) James Riker.
(c) Thaddeus Stevens.
(d) Nicolai Harski.

5. Where did Angela Davis go to study during her graduate years?
(a) Spain.
(b) Germany.
(c) Italy.
(d) England.

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

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

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

9. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe Booker T. Washington?
(a) As an antiracist.
(b) As a segregationist.
(c) As a man of the people.
(d) As a product of Harvard University.

10. Who immigrated from Germany to America in 1886 because of anti-Jewish persecution in Chapter 15?
(a) Marshall Michbein.
(b) Franz Boas.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Nikola Tesla.

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

12. Which of the following was Lincoln against?
(a) Blacks voting.
(b) Blacks working on railroads.
(c) Blacks having access to books.
(d) Blacks working for government.

13. 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 Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.
(b) The north side of Houston.
(c) The South Side of East Bend.
(d) The Greenfield neighborhood of Chicago.

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

15. Where was Stokely Carmichael born?
(a) Trinidad.
(b) Mali.
(c) Senegal.
(d) Somalia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which conflict happened during Abraham Lincoln's presidency?

2. What is the phrase Reynolds and Kendi use to describe Blacks who returned to America from Europe in 1919 after fighting in WWI?

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

4. What was the period in history following the Civil War in the U.S. called?

5. Where did Angela Davis begin teaching in 1968?

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