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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of the Prologue?
(a) Awakening.
(b) Kindling.
(c) Firewood.
(d) Incitement.

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

3. What did James Madison call America’s “original sin”?
(a) Chattel slavery.
(b) World War I.
(c) Segregation.
(d) Jim Crow.

4. What was the mayor of New York’s reaction to the murder of Amadou Diallo?
(a) He swiftly arrested the police officers involved.
(b) He touted the excellence of the NYPD.
(c) He enacted strict anti-racist policy.
(d) He immediately mandated implicit bias training for all officers.

5. What year did the Civil War begin?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1746.
(d) 1861.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Great Migration?

2. When did race riots occur in the North?

3. Who was the mayor of New York in 1999?

4. Which war gave Blacks the opportunity to leave the South to find work in the North?

5. By 1920, there had been approximately how many lynchings per decade?

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