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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year did the “Red Summer” occur?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1954.
(c) 2019.
(d) 1919.

3. The Reconstruction Act was passed in what year?
(a) 1867.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1967.

4. Why did many whites assume outsider agitators were involved in influencing the Great Migration?
(a) They believed Blacks were wealthy.
(b) They believed Blacks were satisfied with their lives.
(c) They believed Blacks were well educated.
(d) They believed Blacks were going to get lost.

5. Which President passed the Amendment Abolishing Slavery?
(a) Marshall.
(b) Obama.
(c) Nixon.
(d) Lincoln.

6. Where did the “Red Summer” occur?
(a) South America.
(b) Africa.
(c) Europe.
(d) North America.

7. Which states’ determination to uphold American slavery led to the Civil War?
(a) Northern.
(b) Southern.
(c) Western.
(d) Eastern.

8. As more Blacks moved north, what happened as a result of the increased housing demand?
(a) Blacks moved to Europe.
(b) Rents increased.
(c) People moved back South.
(d) Rents decreased.

9. What were the Black Codes?
(a) Laws restricting Blacks from holding public office.
(b) A series of laws targeting and only applicable to Black Americans.
(c) A secret language developed by the Black community.
(d) Dress codes at all black schools.

10. Which Amendment Abolished Slavery?
(a) The 13th.
(b) The 16th.
(c) The 12th.
(d) The 19th.

11. What event prompted Anderson to write this book?
(a) The murder of George Floyd.
(b) The 13th Amendment.
(c) Trump’s presidential victory.
(d) The murder or Amadou Diallo.

12. Created by Congress in 1865, the Freedmen’s Bureau was responsible for what?
(a) Helping the newly freed find jobs.
(b) Giving furniture to the recently emancipated.
(c) Moving newly freedmen North.
(d) Reallocating abandoned southern land to newly freed people.

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

14. Where did the 2014 police murder take place?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Ferguson, Missouri.
(c) New York City.
(d) Washington D.C.

15. In 1918, The Federal Government issued what order for Blacks?
(a) Move or fight.
(b) Teach or fight.
(c) Work or fight.
(d) Get married or fight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Dr. Sweet move to after the trial?

2. What year did Dr. Sweet move into a white neighborhood?

3. How many bullets were fired at Amadou Diallo?

4. What act was passed in 1867 in response to the rise of the KKK?

5. Which Congressman said that the 13th Amendment was designed to do more than “confer the bare privilege or not being chained” (9)?

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