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

2. Who was the main female character in Tarzan?
(a) Sally.
(b) Josephine.
(c) Helen.
(d) Jane.

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

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) Brown v. Board of Education.
(b) Row v. Wade.
(c) Shelley v. Kramer.
(d) Plessy v. Ferguson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the most famous Black man in America in 1908?

2. Where was Marcus Garvey originally from before coming to the U.S.?

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

4. What was Abraham Lincoln's most famous moniker?

5. Which Pennsylvania congressman fought for redistribution of land to award to former slaves after the Civil War?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why was Angela Davis charged with murder?

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

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

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

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

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

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