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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. Which new non-violent civil rights group had been established by the early 1960s?
(a) The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
(b) The Black Student Unions Unite.
(c) The Student Civil Rights Board.
(d) The Black Power Non-Violent Committee.

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

3. What did the Fifteenth Amendment allow for?
(a) No one could be prohibited from voting due to race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
(b) Blacks could vote after reaching the age of 30.
(c) Blacks men could vote, but Black women could not.
(d) Blacks had to pass a literacy test before voting.

4. Who followed John F. Kennedy as president of the United States?
(a) Gerald Ford.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Lyndon Baines Johnson.
(d) Jimmy Carter.

5. Which conflict happened during Abraham Lincoln's presidency?
(a) World War II.
(b) World War I.
(c) The Civil War.
(d) The Franco-Spanish War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Reynolds and Kendi say Carmichael would rather be called than "afraid"?

2. Who wrote the 1892 pamphlet Southern Horros: Lynch Law in All Its Phases?

3. When was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?

4. What terrible event resulted in the deaths of four Black children in Birmingham in 1963?

5. What is the phrase Reynolds and Kendi use to describe Blacks who returned to America from Europe in 1919 after fighting in WWI?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What were some of President Andrew Johnson's influences on race relations in America?

5. Why was Angela Davis charged with murder?

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

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

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

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

10. According to Reynolds and Kendi, what was a drawback of the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act?

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