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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. Where did W.E.B Du Bois go to college?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) University of Pennsylvania.

2. What approach did Richard Nixon use in his 1968 run for the presidency?
(a) The Lame Duck Strategy.
(b) The Southern Strategy.
(c) The Confederate Strategy.
(d) The Divide and Conquer Strategy.

3. Which former friend of Angela Davis's killed several people in a hostage situation in 1970?
(a) Randall Holmes.
(b) Jack Johnson.
(c) Robert Windham.
(d) Jonathan Jackson.

4. What was W.E.B. Du Bois the "king" of, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
(a) Antiracism.
(b) Education.
(c) Segregation.
(d) Uplift suasion.

5. What is Tarzan's original name in the novel?
(a) Tony Stark.
(b) David Banner.
(c) Steve Rogers.
(d) John Clayton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which famous novel do Reynolds and Kendi mention in Chapter 20 and then quickly dismiss?

2. What do Reynolds and Kendi say is interesting about the Brown v. Board of Education case that is rarely discussed?

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

4. Which president urged Congress to implement a civil rights act in 1948?

5. Which former Governor of Alabama ran for office in the 1960s on a platform of overt support for segregation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who was involved in organizing the 1963 March on Washington?

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

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

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

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