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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 former Governor of Alabama ran for office in the 1960s on a platform of overt support for segregation?
(a) Marshall Bealleau.
(b) George Wallace.
(c) Robert Frendi.
(d) Major Grenet.

2. What state was Barry Goldwater a senator from?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Arizona.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) North Carolina.

3. Who wrote a biography of John Brown?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Phillis Wheatley.
(d) Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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

5. Which president urged Congress to implement a civil rights act in 1948?
(a) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(b) Bill Clinton.
(c) Harry Truman.
(d) George H.W. Bush.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Angela Davis go to study during her graduate years?

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

3. Which California governor sought to persecute Angela Davis, according to Reynolds and Kendi?

4. Who was the main female character in Tarzan?

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What do Reynolds and Kendi say that W.E.B. Du Bois was the "king" of (118)?

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

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

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

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