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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year did the “Red Summer” occur?

3. From where did Amadou Diallo emigrate?

4. To what country did the American Colonization Society move thousands of newly freed people?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Dred Scott Decision?

2. What was the 13th Amendment and when was it enacted?

3. What was the “Red Summer”? When and where did it take place?

4. What was the Freedmen’s Bureau? When and why was it created?

5. What were the Black Codes?

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

7. Describe the American Colonization Society. What was it? Who created it?

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

9. What was the Chicago Defender and what role did it have, or was it suspected to have, in the Great Migration?

10. What were some of the ways Southern states attempted to punish Blacks for trying to move North around WWI?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the Reagan administration’s war on drugs discussed in Chapter 4. How does Anderson portray the events? What examples from White Rage can you use to show Anderson’s opinion on the events?

Essay Topic 2

Write a brief summary of the time period each chapter covers. Why did Anderson choose these moments for this book?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 3, Anderson offers examples of how access to quality education and classes are intertwined. Discuss using examples from White Rage and your own life and observations.

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