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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 date, leading to the onset of the Great Depression, was known as “Black Tuesday”?
(a) June 13, 1928
(b) December 12, 1930
(c) September 12, 1929
(d) October 29, 1929

2. What is the title of Chapter 20?
(a) The Seventies: Under Control
(b) War is the Health of the State
(c) Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom
(d) The Socialist Challenge

3. What was the name of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) Black Rocket
(b) Little Boy
(c) Fat Man
(d) Blue Tear

4. When did the Philippine-American War take place?
(a) 1865-1870
(b) 1799-1815
(c) 1899-1902
(d) 1895-1898

5. The United Kingdom, France and the Russian Empire comprised what side in World War I?
(a) NATO
(b) The Axis Powers
(c) The Allies
(d) The Central Powers

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Korean War take place?

2. When did the Haymarket affair take place in Chicago?

3. Who signed into law the Espionage Act of 1917?

4. The Japanese American internment was the World War II internment in "War Relocation Camps" of about how many people of Japanese heritage who lived on the Pacific coast of the United States?

5. Where was Malcolm X born?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Zinn describe the differences between the upper and lower classes regarding their trust in the government in Chapter 20?

2. How does the author describe the beginning of the feminist movement in Chapter 19?

3. How had public opinion of the government changed by the 1970s, according to the author in Chapter 20?

4. What does Howard Zinn criticize about the U.S.’s involvement in Vietnam in Chapter 18?

5. What literary figures does Howard Zinn laud for their activism during American imperialism in Chapter 13?

6. How did the Industrial Revolution impact the common people, according to the author in Chapter 11?

7. How did World War I begin? How was the war perceived by the American Communist Party, according to the author in Chapter 16?

8. What were the reasons for the period of American imperialism that began in the 1890s? Chapter 12?

9. What does Howard Zinn question about the motives of World War I in Chapter 16?

10. How does Howard Zinn describe the causes and effects of the Great Depression in Chapter 15?

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