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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What famous speech did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver at the close of the March on Washington?
(a) The Equal Rights Act speech.
(b) The Prophetic Alley speech.
(c) The I Have a Dream speech.
(d) The I Have a Job speech.

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

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

5. When did the Civil War end?
(a) August 1868.
(b) January 1958.
(c) April 1865.
(d) March 1834.

6. Which former friend of Angela Davis's killed several people in a hostage situation in 1970?
(a) Robert Windham.
(b) Jack Johnson.
(c) Randall Holmes.
(d) Jonathan Jackson.

7. Which Supreme Court case ruled that courts could not enforce Whites-only real estate contracts to keep out migrants and stop housing desegregation?
(a) Row v. Wade.
(b) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(c) Shelley v. Kramer.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

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

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

10. When did the American Anti-Slavery Society disband?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1834.

11. Who was one of Angela Davis's favorite authors?
(a) Sojourner Truth.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Toni Morrison.
(d) Charlie Ross.

12. Who was the most famous Black man in America in 1908?
(a) Jack Johnson.
(b) Benny Harp.
(c) Joe Louis.
(d) Mohammed Ali.

13. Who played the title character in the movie Rocky?
(a) Brad Pitt.
(b) Mark Ruffalo.
(c) Don Johnson.
(d) Sylvester Stallone.

14. Which Supreme Court case ruled that school segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?
(a) Roe v. Wade.
(b) Shelley v. Kramer.
(c) Brown v. Board of Education.
(d) Scott v. Wisconsin.

15. 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 Greenfield neighborhood of Chicago.
(c) The South Side of East Bend.
(d) The north side of Houston.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first thing Marcus Garvey did upon arriving in New York in 1916?

2. What terrible event resulted in the deaths of four Black children in Birmingham in 1963?

3. What did the Fifteenth Amendment allow for?

4. Who was the famously racist White police chief in Birmingham Alabama in 1963?

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

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