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

2. What was the period in history following the Civil War in the U.S. called?
(a) Reveling.
(b) Rebooting.
(c) Refinancing.
(d) Reconstruction.

3. Who did Du Bois ask to come speak at Atlanta University, where he was teaching, in 1906?
(a) Nikola Tesla.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Marshall Michbein.
(d) Frank Boas.

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

5. What was a major problem with the Black Power movement, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
(a) It was sexist.
(b) It lacked money.
(c) Its leaders were too young.
(d) It lacked clear leadership.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title of James Baldwin's 1962 activist manifesto?

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

3. What do Reynolds and Kendi say racist White people and the White media heard from Carmichael's new phrase?

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

5. What was W.E.B. Du Bois the "king" of, according to Reynolds and Kendi?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What happened to many slaves who fled from the South to the North to join the Union army during the Civil War?

6. What do Reynolds and Kendi say that Black people were doing even as Lincoln was labeled the Great Emancipator?

7. What is one major change that Stokely Carmichael brought into the antiracist fight?

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

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

10. How did the media treat Malcolm X's death, according to Reynolds and Kendi?

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