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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which white boxer did some Whites have hope would beat the best boxer in America in the early 1900s, who was Black?
(a) Bob Barkley.
(b) Joseph Memory.
(c) Mitchell Renderson.
(d) James J. Jeffries.

2. In which year did President Woodrow Wilson win the U.S. presidency?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1926.

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

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

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

6. Who wrote the novel The Color Purple?
(a) Zadie Smith.
(b) Kiley Reid.
(c) Alice Walker.
(d) Toni Morrison.

7. Who raided the U.S. Armory in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, in 1859?
(a) Jack Johnson.
(b) John Madison.
(c) John Brown.
(d) Edward Henry.

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

9. Who beat Abraham Lincoln in a race for a Senate seat in 1858?
(a) John Hardy.
(b) Alexander Hamilton.
(c) Frederick Douglas.
(d) Stephen Douglas.

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

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

12. 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) Rendell Kenny.
(b) Sojourner Truth.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Judith Larin.

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

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

15. Where was Angela Davis from?
(a) Pittsburgh.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Raleigh.
(d) Birmingham.

Short Answer Questions

1. What initiative did President Franklin D. Roosevelt implement in the 1930s?

2. Which movie in the 1960s do Reynolds and Kendi compare to Tarzan and The Birth of a Nation?

3. Where did violence start to occur immediately after the signing of the Voting Rights Act, according to Reynolds and Kendi in Chapter 22?

4. Which university were the four Black freshman from who started the original lunch-counter sit-in at Woolworth's in 1960?

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

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