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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Man on the Cliff.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. That particular type of philosophy was often referred to as a(n) ______ philosophy.
(a) Purposeless.
(b) Uninformed.
(c) Aristocratic.
(d) Viable.

2. What word was often used to describe the status of a black person, whether or not he was free?
(a) Worthless.
(b) Regal.
(c) Worthy.
(d) Inferior.

3. By what year did Southern segregation realize its completion?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1898.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1915.

4. Who is the author of "The Silent South?"
(a) Lewis.
(b) Blair.
(c) Cable.
(d) Fitzgerald.

5. What was another term for the walled compounds where blacks worked as slaves?
(a) Restricted areas.
(b) Plantations.
(c) Groves.
(d) Fields.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade did the Ku Klux Klan reach the height of its power?

2. What formal document is said to have officially abolished slavery?

3. Historians and sociologists find that certain things were hard to measure. What were those things?

4. In the late 1800s, the US launched a(n) _______ campaign in the Caribbean and Pacific.

5. Although there was close proximity of the slaves and land owners, it did not mean that there was a sense of long term ______.

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