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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not on the list of phenomena that began to appear in the late 1800s?
(a) Ambivalence.
(b) Brutality.
(c) Exploitation.
(d) Cruelty.

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

3. From which state did the court case originate?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Tennessee.

4. Uncle ____ was a term often used to describe Negroes.
(a) George.
(b) Mason.
(c) Frank.
(d) Tom.

5. In regards to legal proceedings, what was a black barred from doing in the court room?
(a) Working as a court official.
(b) Becoming a lawyer.
(c) Being a juror.
(d) Testifying in any case.

6. Who was the most well known leader of the Southern Populists?
(a) Winston.
(b) Washington.
(c) Watson.
(d) Winkler.

7. What segment of the changes that took place in the South lasted the longest?
(a) 2nd.
(b) 3rd.
(c) 4th.
(d) 1st.

8. The Northerners often ignored what part of their cities?
(a) Slums.
(b) Suburbs.
(c) Town centers.
(d) Ghettos.

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

10. What is the word used for the action of engaging blacks into society as equals?
(a) Liberation.
(b) Acceptance.
(c) Alternative.
(d) Enfranchisement.

11. The great historical event was thought to have caused the end of an important time period. What was it called?
(a) Great Compromise.
(b) Reconstruction.
(c) Civil Rights movement.
(d) Civil War.

12. In what month did the Brown case come to an end?
(a) October.
(b) May.
(c) April.
(d) August.

13. What is a word used by the author that means the same as "to be cast out?"
(a) Banishment.
(b) Ostracized.
(c) Evicted.
(d) Deterred.

14. Which of the following may not be to blame for the continuance of the attitudes of the people regarding slavery?
(a) Apparent permanent status.
(b) Resignation of blacks.
(c) Attitude of northerners.
(d) Rally of plantation owners.

15. What is the word used to describe people who disliked or were afraid of the Negroes?
(a) Supremacists.
(b) Collaborators.
(c) Negrophobes.
(d) Negrophiles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many groups of blacks pushed to be able to have equal use of which of the following?

2. What is it called when a prevalent body or thought rules the land?

3. In what year was the book published?

4. In what year was a decision made regarding the case?

5. What major historical event took place in the 1870s?

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