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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 Pride.
(b) Black Wisdom.
(c) Black Power.
(d) Black Literature.

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

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

4. What do Reynolds and Kendi say racist White people and the White media heard from Carmichael's new phrase?
(a) Black supremacy.
(b) Black stories.
(c) Black mayhem.
(d) Black violence.

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

6. When did Stokely Carmichael first come to the United States?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1952.

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

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

9. What was Abraham Lincoln's most famous moniker?
(a) Honest Abe.
(b) Famous Abe.
(c) Tricky Abe.
(d) Abolitionist Abe.

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

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

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

13. Which leader did young activists who were frustrated with Martin Luther King Jr.'s messages of non-violent action in protest sometimes turn to?
(a) Malcolm X.
(b) Rendell Kenny.
(c) Judith Larin.
(d) Sojourner Truth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What organization did Marcus Garvey start in Harlem?

2. What institution did Booker T. Washington attend?

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

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

5. Which jail did Martin Luther King Jr. write a letter from in the early 1960s?

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