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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was W. E. B. Du Bois pushed out of the NAACP in 1936?
(a) For promoting integration.
(b) For promoting Black empowerment.
(c) For promoting a return to slavery.
(d) For promoting assimilation.

2. Where did W. E. B. Du Bois attend college?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Fisk University.

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

4. What finding did UCLA's Judy Howard come to in 2013 regarding the crack babies she studied between 1989 and 1992?
(a) That the crack babies did not suffer long-lasting deformities.
(b) That cigarette smoking was worse than crack for kids.
(c) That the crack babies inevitably ended up addicted through life.
(d) That poverty was worse for kids than crack.

5. Along with Huey P. Newton, who penned the ten-point platform for the newly founded Black Panther Party In 1966?
(a) Barry Goldwater.
(b) Bobby Seale.
(c) James Elbert Cutler.
(d) Walter White.

6. When was the Peace Corps established?
(a) January 21, 1970.
(b) March 1, 1961.
(c) April 9, 1950.
(d) January 1, 1965.

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

8. When did General Lee's army surrender, ending the Civil War?
(a) January 1, 1863.
(b) July 21, 1861.
(c) January 31, 1865.
(d) April 9, 1865.

9. Who wrote The Clansmen?
(a) Thomas Dixon.
(b) Samuel Sewall.
(c) Robert Abbott.
(d) James Elbert Cutler.

10. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?
(a) April 15, 1861.
(b) June 25, 1890.
(c) January 1, 1863.
(d) February 23, 1868.

11. About whom did George H. W. Bush's campaign release an ad, criticizing his opponent for granting "weekend passes from prison" in the 1988 election (441)?
(a) James Elbert Cutler.
(b) Willie Horton.
(c) Robert Abbott.
(d) Marie-Guillemine Benoist.

12. When did Henry W. Grady issue his official reply in Century Magazine to George Washington Cable and other antiracist critics?
(a) June, 1889.
(b) September, 1883.
(c) March, 1883.
(d) April, 1885.

13. When did the Congress of Industrial Organizations emerge?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1956.

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

15. The author asserts that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the first important civil rights legislation since the Civil Rights Act of what year?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1886.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the new executive secretary of the NAACP in 1933?

2. Who was impeached on the day after W. E. B. Du Bois was born?

3. What act was passed in 1861 that declared that slave holders forfeited their ownership of any property, including slaves, used by the Confederate Army?

4. Who wrote the 1990 book Black Feminist Thought?

5. When did members of the House pass the Thirteenth Amendment?

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