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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who became president after Lincoln was assassinated?
(a) Lyndon Johnson.
(b) Andrew Johnson.
(c) Andrew Jackson.
(d) Richard Nixon.

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

11. What year did Dr. Sweet move into a white neighborhood?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1818.

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

13. In addition to seeking work during the Great Migration, what did Blacks hope to find up North?
(a) Better restaurants.
(b) Better schools.
(c) Better lawyers.
(d) Better hospitals.

14. What is the Great Migration?
(a) Exodus of Blacks to the South.
(b) Exodus of Blacks to Africa.
(c) Exodus of Blacks to the North.
(d) Exodus of Whites to Africa.

15. 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 immediately mandated implicit bias training for all officers.
(d) He enacted strict anti-racist policy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which President passed the Amendment Abolishing Slavery?

2. What is the name of the system by which white plantation owners would bail Black men out of jail and have them work off their debt?

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

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

5. Where did the “Red Summer” occur?

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