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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Franz Boas from?
(a) Spain.
(b) Portugal.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

2. When was Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka decided?
(a) January 7, 1962.
(b) January 1, 1940.
(c) May 12, 1959.
(d) May 17, 1954.

3. When did the Supreme Court rule in the McCleskey v. Kemp case?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1977.

4. Who knocked out Tommy Burns in Australia in 1908?
(a) Jack Johnson.
(b) Thomas Dixon.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) James Elbert Cutler.

5. When was Malcolm X assassinated?
(a) March 26, 1964.
(b) May 17, 1954.
(c) August 6, 1965.
(d) February 21, 1965.

6. Who directed the film Malcolm X?
(a) Robert Abbott.
(b) Spike Lee.
(c) Bobby Seale.
(d) James Elbert Cutler.

7. When did MIT's campus host "Black Women in the Academy: Defending Our Name" (453)?
(a) October 3, 1995.
(b) October 3, 1995.
(c) January 13, 1994.
(d) September 20, 1984.

8. Who wrote Through the Dark Continent in 1878?
(a) Henry Morton Stanley.
(b) Frances Maria Lloyd.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) Henry W. Grady.

9. Where was George Wallace governor?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Texas.
(d) Louisiana.

10. Who wrote The Conscience of a Conservative?
(a) Walter White.
(b) Barry Goldwater.
(c) James Elbert Cutler.
(d) Bobby Seale.

11. What is the title of the controversial essay W. E. B. Du Bois published in The Crisis in January of 1934?
(a) "Segregation."
(b) "Integration."
(c) "The Primitive Mind."
(d) "The Negro Way."

12. When did The Cosby Show premier?
(a) June 25, 1986.
(b) January 7, 1990.
(c) March 26, 1989.
(d) September 20, 1984.

13. What does CORE stand for?
(a) Considerations on Racial Equality.
(b) Company of Racial Equity.
(c) Congress of Racial Equality.
(d) Conditions of Racial Equality.

14. Who wrote Tarzan of the Apes?
(a) Thomas Dixon.
(b) Edgar Rice Burroughs.
(c) Samuel Sewall.
(d) James Elbert Cutler.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the U.S. Supreme Court declare the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional?

2. Who wrote Heredity in Relation to Eugenics?

3. When was the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union issued?

4. Who did W. E. B. Du Bois offer as a model for Black leadership?

5. What newspaper is described as having had the headline "Disaster in the Making: Crack Babies Start to Grow Up"?

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