Print
Word
PDF
|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What institution did Booker T. Washington attend?
2. Which book was the film The Birth of a Nation based upon?
3. Which former Governor of Alabama ran for office in the 1960s on a platform of overt support for segregation?
4. Who was the famously racist White police chief in Birmingham Alabama in 1963?
5. Where did Angela Davis go to study during her graduate years?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who was the most famous Black man in America in the early 1900s, and what did he symbolize to Black people?
2. What is one major change that Stokely Carmichael brought into the antiracist fight?
3. How did the media treat Malcolm X's death, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
4. What do Reynolds and Kendi say that Black people were doing even as Lincoln was labeled the Great Emancipator?
5. How did Angela Davis feel about the teachings of Malcolm X?
6. What new ideas did W.E.B. Du Bois embrace later in his life in Chapter 19?
7. What do Reynolds and Kendi say is the most effective piece of antiracist legislation ever passed by the U.S. Congress?
8. How do Reynolds and Kendi explain the reasons behind Abraham Lincoln's early calls for ending slavery?
9. According to Reynolds and Kendi, what was a drawback of the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
10. What was the first legislation that Lyndon Baines Johnson wanted passed following President John F. Kennedy's assassination?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Reynolds and Kendi repeatedly emphasize Thomas Jefferson's contradictory thoughts and actions regarding slavery and his treatment and impressions of Black people. Write an essay explaining some of the specifics of these contradictions, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.
Essay Topic 2
What was the Three-Fifths Compromise, and what were the founders' reasons for including it in the Constitutional Convention of 1787? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
What does the phrase the "Talented Tenth" refer to, and how was this concept received by the public? Write an essay explaining your answers.
|
This section contains 640 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
|
