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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) Phillis Wheatley.
(b) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(c) Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
(d) Harriet Tubman.

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

3. Which book was the film The Birth of a Nation based upon?
(a) Westerworld.
(b) Tarzan.
(c) Shane.
(d) The Clansman.

4. What initiative did President Franklin D. Roosevelt implement in the 1930s?
(a) The End Deal.
(b) The New Deal.
(c) The Prosperity Deal.
(d) The Spring Deal.

5. Which famous novel do Reynolds and Kendi mention in Chapter 20 and then quickly dismiss?
(a) Peyton Place.
(b) Zarthura.
(c) To Kill a Mockingbird.
(d) Sankofa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which conflict happened during Abraham Lincoln's presidency?

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

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

4. Who wrote Malcolm X.'s autobiography with him?

5. When did the American Anti-Slavery Society disband?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What new ideas did W.E.B. Du Bois embrace later in his life in Chapter 19?

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

9. What did President Woodrow Wilson fear about Black soldiers' experiences in Europe during WWI?

10. What was the first legislation that Lyndon Baines Johnson wanted passed following President John F. Kennedy's assassination?

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