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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Birth Right.
(c) Sin
(d) Legal right.

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

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

5. By 1920, there had been approximately how many lynchings per decade?
(a) 20,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 20.
(d) 100.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which newspaper was thought to have influenced the Great Migration?

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. What is the title of the Prologue?

4. Where did the “Red Summer” occur?

5. After Diallo’s murder, what did Black Americans express concern over with regard to the New York Police Department?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the author of White Rage? What is her background? What led her to write this book?

2. What is the book’s genre? What does that mean?

3. In which part of Detroit did most Black people live after the Great Migration? Describe the conditions there.

4. Who was Mayor of NYC when Amadou Diallo was shot by police? How did he react to it?

5. Who was Ossian Sweet? What happened on September 9, 1925? Where did Ossian Sweet live his final years?

6. How does Anderson define "white rage”?

7. Where was Michael Brown murdered, and how did the country react? Can you think of any recent similar situations?

8. Which court decision upheld racially restrictive housing policies?

9. What was the Dred Scott Decision?

10. What is Reconstruction?

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