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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who were the nine Black teenagers falsely convicted in 1931 in Alabama of gang-raping two women on a train?
(a) The Montgomery Nine.
(b) The Cleveland Boys.
(c) The Scottsboro Boys.
(d) The Birmingham Nine.

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

3. When did the First Battle of Bull run take place in northern Virginia?
(a) December 24, 1860.
(b) April 15, 1861.
(c) July 21, 1861.
(d) March 6, 1857.

4. Who wrote The Mis-Education of the Negro?
(a) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(b) Carter G. Woodson.
(c) Henry W. Grady.
(d) Walter White.

5. Who was the only woman in Franklin Roosevelt's "Black cabinet"?
(a) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.
(b) Mary Silvina Burghardt.
(c) Mary McLeod Bethune.
(d) Alexandra Stephens.

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

7. When did President Johnson sign the Voting Rights Act?
(a) March 26, 1964.
(b) August 6, 1965.
(c) February 21, 1965.
(d) May 17, 1954.

8. Where is To Kill a Mockingbird set?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Virginia.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Louisiana.

9. When did W. E. B. Du Bois publish Dusk of Dawn?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1940.

10. Who wrote Dark Ghetto?
(a) Walter White.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Barry Goldwater.
(d) Kenneth Clark.

11. Where was Woodrow Wilson born?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Virginia.

12. When did the U.S. Supreme Court declare the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1883.
(d) 1862.

13. In what Black newspaper did T. Thomas Fortune run and that W. E. B. Du Bois began his publishing career?
(a) The Boston Sun.
(b) The Philadelphia Enquirer.
(c) The New York Globe.
(d) The New York Post.

14. When was the verdict read in the O. J. Simpson trial?
(a) June 14, 1990.
(b) October 3, 1992.
(c) September 20, 1984.
(d) October 3, 1995.

15. When was the New Deal enacted?
(a) 1933-1938.
(b) 1940-1948.
(c) 1935-1939.
(d) 1920-1929.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the 1990 book Black Feminist Thought?

2. When was Malcolm X assassinated?

3. Who filmed the brutal attack of Rodney King?

4. Who was the chief propagandist of the New South in the 1880s?

5. Who wrote Our Brother in Black?

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