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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What motivated George Pepperdine to found his university?
(a) A desire to omit religious teaching from the curriculum.
(b) A desire to provide students with a religious education.
(c) A desire to train future politicians and leaders.
(d) A desire to create a racially integrated school.

2. What was Muhammad Ali's real name?
(a) Marcus Garvey.
(b) Ronald Frye.
(c) James Meridith.
(d) Cassius Clay.

3. What statement does Tisby make about President Lincoln?
(a) He was a slave-owner.
(b) He was an effective leader.
(c) He was a passionate abolitionist.
(d) He was not in favor of racial equality.

4. What was the nickname for the state of Kansas during the years leading up to the Civil War?
(a) Lawless Kansas.
(b) Fair Kansas.
(c) Wild Kansas.
(d) Bloody Kansas.

5. Who spearheaded the revival of the KKK in the early 1900s?
(a) Thomas Dixon Jr.
(b) Lyndon Johnson.
(c) D.W. Griffith.
(d) Ulysses S. Grant.

6. What was the term used for the "the "massive migration of whites to the suburbs" (126) to escape racial integration?
(a) White flight.
(b) White fright.
(c) White might.
(d) White light.

7. What was the practice of blockbusting?
(a) Local residents in white communities refused to sell their homes to Black buyers.
(b) Salespeople charged lower prices when selling homes to Black buyers.
(c) Local organization banded together to harass Black residents who tried to move in.
(d) Salespeople used racial fears to persuade white buyers to sell their homes at a loss.

8. What word did white Southerners use to describe their attempt to regain power after the Civil War?
(a) Reclamation.
(b) Absolution.
(c) Redemption.
(d) Vindication.

9. What did Dr. George Edmund Hayes blame for the Red Summer violence?
(a) Unruly behavior from Black citizens.
(b) Unpunished lynchings committed by white citizens.
(c) Political corruption by local officials.
(d) Insufficient support from local sheriffs.

10. Who was Ida B .Wells?
(a) A Black physician.
(b) An antilynching activist.
(c) An American politician.
(d) A college professor.

11. How many Black people served in the U.S. armed forces during World War I?
(a) About 250,000.
(b) About 200,000.
(c) About 300,000.
(d) About 350,000.

12. Who coined the phrase, "Black Power"?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Stokey Carmichael.
(c) Martin Luther King, Sr.
(d) Muhammed Ali.

13. What was the impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
(a) It overturned the Fugitive Slave Clause.
(b) It provided a legal argument against emancipation.
(c) It nullified the Missouri Compromise.
(d) It tipped the balance of power in favor of slave states.

14. Why was it difficult for abolitionists to use the Bible support for their views?
(a) Several Bible passages directly supported slave-ownership.
(b) Many abolitionists were illiterate and unable to read the Bible.
(c) Their opponents referenced a different version of the Bible.
(d) The Bible did not address the morality of slave-ownership.

15. How many people died in the Civil War?
(a) 200-400,000.
(b) 650-850,000.
(c) 400-500,000.
(d) 500-650,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rights were granted by the 15th Amendment?

2. According to Tisby, what organization worked to erect Confederate monuments after the Civil War?

3. Who was the first Grand Wizard of the KKK?

4. Which state was the first to secede from the Union?

5. What was a primary goal of "Redeemers" (97)?

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