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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 2014 race riots erupted after the police killing of whom?
(a) Amadou Diallo.
(b) Michael Brown.
(c) Rudy Giuliani.
(d) Bronwin Michaels.

2. Who is the author of the book White Rage?
(a) Carol Anderson.
(b) Mary Sweet.
(c) Ida B. Wells.
(d) Carol Ferguson.

3. Who was arrested after the confrontation at Dr. Sweet’s house?
(a) Police officers who didn’t help.
(b) Those who threw things at his home.
(c) Dr. Sweet’s child.
(d) Dr. Sweet, his wife and friends.

4. What Alabama Congressman took the lead in education reform when he backed the NDEA?
(a) T.S. Elliot.
(b) Elliot Grossman.
(c) Carl Jung.
(d) Carl Elliot.

5. According to Anderson, in the early twentieth century, the rape of Black women was considered a white man’s what?
(a) Rite of passage.
(b) Sin
(c) Birth Right.
(d) Legal right.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the nation began to lag behind because of lack of education, who did some Southerners placed blame?

2. What group worked to overturn Jim Crow laws in the 1930s?

3. Once these types of jobs began to disappear in the United States, it became much more difficult for those without an education to make a living wage?

4. In addition to seeking work during the Great Migration, what did Blacks hope to find up North?

5. Signed by 101 members of Congress in the Deep South, what document claimed that the Supreme Court violated state’s rights with integration laws?

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