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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Capitulation to Racism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of Southern history involves plantations and slaves?
(a) Confederate South.
(b) Historical South.
(c) Old South.
(d) Popular South.

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

3. Many groups of blacks pushed to be able to have equal use of which of the following?
(a) Restaurant facilities.
(b) Water fountains.
(c) Public communications.
(d) Freedom of speech.

4. What word best describes the existing laws regarding the rights of black?
(a) Impossible.
(b) Rigid.
(c) Flexible.
(d) Evolving.

5. What part of the south was known to have hundreds of thousands of free blacks?
(a) Post-war.
(b) Crow South.
(c) Antebellum.
(d) Pre World War I.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which states were the first to wane in their support of the cause?

2. The Northerners often ignored what part of their cities?

3. According to the author, only a small percentage of ______ has escaped attack.

4. Which segment of the Southern population believed in a societal hierarchy regarding the blacks?

5. Racists often referred to Negroes as lacking which of the following?

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