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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: "W. E. B. Du Bois," Chapters 27-29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many Union soldiers did General Sherman lead in the fabled March to the Sea?
(a) 60,000.
(b) 40,000.
(c) 30,000.
(d) 70,000.

2. Who was the new executive secretary of the NAACP in 1933?
(a) Walter White.
(b) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(c) Alexander Stephens.
(d) Henry W. Grady.

3. How many races or varieties of a single human species did Buffon distinguish?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

4. What did George Best observe about the Inuit people of northeastern Canada on his voyage in 1577?
(a) They were shorter than people living in the south.
(b) They were darker than people living in the south.
(c) They were taller than people living in the south.
(d) They were paler than the people living in the south.

5. Who was W. E. B. Du Bois's half brother who was born out of wedlock?
(a) Adelbert.
(b) Paul.
(c) Henry.
(d) Thomas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who became "one of the first African Americans to publicly attack the idea of uplift suasion" in the 1830s (179)?

2. Who or what killed the Germantown Petition Against Slavery?

3. Who wrote The Selling of Joseph?

4. Who gave the speech from which the author derived the title Stamped from the Beginning?

5. Who proposed the redistribution of 400 million acres owned by the wealthiest 10 percent of southerners be redistributed in September of 1865?

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