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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 was the Voting Rights Act passed?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1970.
2. What organization did Marcus Garvey start in Harlem?
(a) The Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC).
(b) The Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).
(c) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
(d) The Fight For Black Rights Association (FFBRA).
3. When was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?
(a) August 9, 1973.
(b) March 10, 1970.
(c) January 3, 1972.
(d) April 4, 1968.
4. Which jail did Martin Luther King Jr. write a letter from in the early 1960s?
(a) Birmingham Jail.
(b) Fulsom Jail.
(c) Markin's Jail.
(d) Pickett's Jail.
5. Which conflict happened during Abraham Lincoln's presidency?
(a) The Franco-Spanish War.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) World War I.
(d) World War II.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was W.E.B. Du Bois the "king" of, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
2. Which leader did young activists who were frustrated with Martin Luther King Jr.'s messages of non-violent action in protest sometimes turn to?
3. Which book was the film The Birth of a Nation based upon?
4. When did Stokely Carmichael first come to the United States?
5. What do Reynolds and Kendi say is interesting about the Brown v. Board of Education case that is rarely discussed?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the first legislation that Lyndon Baines Johnson wanted passed following President John F. Kennedy's assassination?
2. How do Reynolds and Kendi explain the reasons behind Abraham Lincoln's early calls for ending slavery?
3. According to Reynolds and Kendi, what was a drawback of the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
4. What do Reynolds and Kendi say that Black people were doing even as Lincoln was labeled the Great Emancipator?
5. What happened to many slaves who fled from the South to the North to join the Union army during the Civil War?
6. Why was Angela Davis charged with murder?
7. What new ideas did W.E.B. Du Bois embrace later in his life in Chapter 19?
8. What did the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 rule?
9. According to Reynolds and Kendi, how did Roosevelt's New Deal affect Black people?
10. What do Reynolds and Kendi say that W.E.B. Du Bois was the "king" of (118)?
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