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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?

2. What was Abraham Lincoln's most famous moniker?

3. Which of the following was one of Abraham Lincoln's monikers?

4. In which year did President Woodrow Wilson win the U.S. presidency?

5. Which white boxer did some Whites have hope would beat the best boxer in America in the early 1900s, who was Black?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Tarzan symbolize for White people?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do Reynolds and Kendi characterize former President Bill Clinton's crime bill? How did it influence public opinion about the Black community? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How did Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, affect the public view of slavery at the time of its publication? How did Blacks in general view the book? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

How do Reynolds and Kendi characterize the organization of the 1963 March on Washington, and who do they say worked together to organize it? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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