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

2. When did members of the House pass the Thirteenth Amendment?
(a) January 31, 1865.
(b) January 1, 1863.
(c) July 21, 1861.
(d) April 9, 1865.

3. What U.S. state was central in the McCleskey v. Kemp case?
(a) Tennessee.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Georgia.

4. Who wrote Two Nations, Black & White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal?
(a) Bobby Seale.
(b) James Elbert Cutler.
(c) Andrew Hacker.
(d) Robert Abbott.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Stokely Carmicheal born?

2. When did W. E. B. Du Bois graduate from Harvard?

3. When was Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka decided?

4. Who wrote Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York?

5. When was W. E. B. Du Bois born?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What led Lincoln to enact the Emancipation Proclamation?

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

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

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

6. When did the Black Power movement emerge and what did it hope to achieve?

7. When and where was W. E. B. Du Bois born and raised? What made him unique?

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

9. What was the significance of the release of the Human Genome Project results in 2000?

10. What was the mission of the National Associatoin of Colored Women and when was this organization formed?

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