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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When did race riots occur in the North?
(a) Between 1860-1863.
(b) Between 1917-1920.
(c) Between 1940-1945.
(d) Between 1770-1771.

4. In which newspaper was the author’s initial piece about “white rage” published?
(a) New York Times.
(b) Milwaukee Tribune.
(c) Chicago Defender.
(d) Washington Post.

5. Under which law did the Supreme Court uphold “racially restrictive housing policies”(56)?
(a) Sweet v. Department of Housing.
(b) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(c) Parmalee v. Morris.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

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

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

8. Where did Dr. Sweet move to after the trial?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Washington D.C.
(c) Black Bottom.
(d) New York City.

9. Who created the American Colonization Society?
(a) Henry Clay.
(b) Henry James.
(c) Hank Williams.
(d) Henry Garfield.

10. What three things did the Radical Republicans seek for Blacks?
(a) Land, clothing, and the right to vote.
(b) Land, citizenship, and the right to vote.
(c) Land, citizenship, and automobiles.
(d) Land, employment, and the right to vote.

11. 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) Legal right.
(d) Birth Right.

12. What year was the KKK founded?
(a) 1765.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1665.

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

14. What is the name of the area of Detroit to which Blacks moved during the Great Migration?
(a) Black Village.
(b) Black Valley.
(c) Black Bottom.
(d) Black mountain.

15. Which Supreme Court decision stated that African Americans could not be citizens of the United States?
(a) The Frederick Douglass Decision.
(b) The Dred Scott Decision.
(c) The Ossian Sweet Decision.
(d) The Simon Johnson Decision.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the man who killed Hampton Smith for his brutal behavior?

3. What event prompted Anderson to write this book?

4. What year did the Civil War begin?

5. In 2014 race riots erupted after the police killing of whom?

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