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

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

3. What does AFIC stand for?
(a) The American Financial Investigation Commission.
(b) The American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission.
(c) The American Fascist Industrialist Convention.
(d) The American Farmers' Insurance Commission.

4. Who proposed the redistribution of 400 million acres owned by the wealthiest 10 percent of southerners be redistributed in September of 1865?
(a) Alexander Stephens.
(b) Thaddeus Stevens.
(c) Hendrik Cesars.
(d) Andrew Johnson.

5. What was Franz Boas's 1911 magnum opus?
(a) The Mind of Primitive Man.
(b) The Archeology of Ancient Greece.
(c) The Journey through Africa.
(d) Minds and Matter.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Matthew Butler and John Tyler Morgan introduce a congressional bill to fund Black emigration to Africa?

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

3. Who wrote The Mis-Education of the Negro?

4. In what Black newspaper did T. Thomas Fortune run and that W. E. B. Du Bois began his publishing career?

5. Who was the only woman in Franklin Roosevelt's "Black cabinet"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How had W. E. B. Du Bois' views changed by 1933? Why?

2. What discussion does the author make regarding The Cosby Show?

3. What led to the L.A. Riots in the early 1990s? How did the riots impact race relations?

4. What change did Malcolm X experience during his trip to Mecca in 1963?

5. Why is the issue of land distribution following the Civil War significant?

6. What led Lincoln to enact the Emancipation Proclamation?

7. What were the impacts of the War on Drugs on the racist issues in America?

8. How did the question of race in America change after World War II and during the Cold War?

9. How were Black Americans affected by the New Deal?

10. What is eugenics and how does it apply to racism?

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