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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 wrote Malcolm X.'s autobiography with him?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) James Baldwin.
(d) Alex Haley.

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

3. What was W.E.B. Du Bois the "king" of, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
(a) Education.
(b) Antiracism.
(c) Segregation.
(d) Uplift suasion.

4. Where was Stokely Carmichael born?
(a) Mali.
(b) Trinidad.
(c) Somalia.
(d) Senegal.

5. Which jail did Martin Luther King Jr. write a letter from in the early 1960s?
(a) Fulsom Jail.
(b) Pickett's Jail.
(c) Birmingham Jail.
(d) Markin's Jail.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who followed John F. Kennedy as president of the United States?

3. Who beat Abraham Lincoln in a race for a Senate seat in 1858?

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

5. Who wrote Tarzan?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did President Woodrow Wilson fear about Black soldiers' experiences in Europe during WWI?

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

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

4. What was the first legislation that Lyndon Baines Johnson wanted passed following President John F. Kennedy's assassination?

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

6. What happened in Birmingham Alabama in 1963 that changed the course of the civil rights movement?

7. What do Reynolds and Kendi say is the most effective piece of antiracist legislation ever passed by the U.S. Congress?

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

9. What new ideas did W.E.B. Du Bois embrace later in his life in Chapter 19?

10. Who was the most famous Black man in America in the early 1900s, and what did he symbolize to Black people?

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