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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following was one of Abraham Lincoln's monikers?
(a) The Great Deal Maker.
(b) The Great Emancipator.
(c) The Great Debater.
(d) The Great Tea Maker.

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

5. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe Du Bois?
(a) As a segregationist.
(b) As a hyper-intellectual golden child.
(c) As a student of history.
(d) As a product of the Tuskegee Institute.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which white boxer did some Whites have hope would beat the best boxer in America in the early 1900s, who was Black?

3. Who wrote Malcolm X.'s autobiography with him?

4. Where did W.E.B Du Bois go to college?

5. When did the Civil War end?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when President Harry Truman urged Congress to pass a civil rights act in 1948?

2. What did Tarzan symbolize for White people?

3. Which politician did Richard Nixon model his run for the presidency from, and why?

4. Who was involved in organizing the 1963 March on Washington?

5. What did the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 rule?

6. How do Reynolds and Kendi explain the reasons behind Abraham Lincoln's early calls for ending slavery?

7. According to Reynolds and Kendi, how did Roosevelt's New Deal affect Black people?

8. Which film did President Woodrow Wilson screen at the White House, and how did it portray Black people?

9. How did Angela Davis feel about the teachings of Malcolm X?

10. What approach did Booker T. Washington take to trying to gain more equal treatment for Blacks?

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