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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. Which political party did Abraham Lincoln belong to?
(a) Republican.
(b) Democrat.
(c) Green.
(d) Independent.

7. Which California governor sought to persecute Angela Davis, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
(a) James Monroe.
(b) Ronald Reagan.
(c) Arnold Helms.
(d) Marshall Mitchell.

8. What organization did Marcus Garvey start in Harlem?
(a) The Fight For Black Rights Association (FFBRA).
(b) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
(c) The Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC).
(d) The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).

9. What state was Barry Goldwater a senator from?
(a) North Carolina.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Arizona.

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

11. What problem did Malcolm X. have with the Civil Rights Bill?
(a) He thought there was a Trojan Horse in it somewhere.
(b) He thought it was too radical.
(c) He thought it would not be enforced.
(d) He thought it did not go far enough.

12. Which president urged Congress to implement a civil rights act in 1948?
(a) Bill Clinton.
(b) George H.W. Bush.
(c) Harry Truman.
(d) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

13. Which new non-violent civil rights group had been established by the early 1960s?
(a) The Student Civil Rights Board.
(b) The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
(c) The Black Power Non-Violent Committee.
(d) The Black Student Unions Unite.

14. 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) The bombing of a church by White supremacists.
(c) A rally with guns held by White supremacists.
(d) A car crash caused by White supremacists.

15. 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) James J. Jeffries.
(c) Mitchell Renderson.
(d) Joseph Memory.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the main female character in Tarzan?

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

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

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

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