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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the mayor of New York in 1999?
(a) WEB Dubois.
(b) Rudy Giuliani.
(c) Andrew Johnson.
(d) Ossian Sweet.

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

3. Which people joined together to create laws to stop the Great Migration?
(a) Legislators, laborers, journalists.
(b) Government officials, legislators and police officers.
(c) Plantation Owners, legislators, the media.
(d) Government Officials, legislators, and plantation owners.

4. What was Ossian Sweet’s occupation?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Police Officer.

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

6. To what country did the American Colonization Society move thousands of newly freed people?
(a) Lusitania.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Libya.
(d) Liberia.

7. What year were the Black Codes passed?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1776.
(d) 2010.

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

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

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

11. From where did Amadou Diallo emigrate?
(a) North Africa.
(b) South America.
(c) West Africa.
(d) South Africa.

12. Which war gave Blacks the opportunity to leave the South to find work in the North?
(a) World War I.
(b) The Civil War.
(c) World War II.
(d) World War III.

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

14. What constituted vagrancy under the Black Codes?
(a) Not owning a home.
(b) Not having gainful employment.
(c) Not being clean.
(d) Not taking care of one’s children.

15. What oath, devised by Congress in 1862, did Andrew Johnson ignore in order to pardon Confederates?
(a) Hippocratic Oath.
(b) Iron Clad Test Oath.
(c) Oath of office.
(d) Oath of Allegiance.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which newspaper was the author’s initial piece about “white rage” published?

2. What does Anderson claim is the trigger for white rage?

3. Why did many whites assume outsider agitators were involved in influencing the Great Migration?

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

5. After Diallo’s murder, what did Mayor Giuliani say the community’s real issue was?

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