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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote the 1990 book Black Feminist Thought?

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

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

5. Where is To Kill a Mockingbird set?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led William Lloyd Garrison to say of Abraham Lincoln that he did not have "a drop of antislavery blood in his veins" (217)?

2. Who was Franz Boas and what did he present at the Atlanta University Commencement Address that shocked his audience?

3. What led Lincoln to enact the Emancipation Proclamation?

4. What impacts did the women's suffrage movement have on the Black community?

5. Why did the concept of segregation gain momentum at the turn of the twentieth century?

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

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

8. What were the "race-veiled" voting restrictions that emerged in the 1890s in the South (273)?

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

10. What significance does the author place on Tarzan of the Apes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the contemporary climate of racism in America and how this climate inspired Ibram X. Kendi's writing of Stamped from the Beginning. What examples of police shootings, trials, and activist movements does Kendi describe in the Prologue? In what ways have these events shaped contemporary society?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the origins and history of curse theory. When and where did this theory arise? How was this theory used to justify racism and slavery? How did this theory oppose climate theory?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the lives, careers, and activist work of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. How did King and Malcolm X differ in their views and their actions? What similar ideas did they share? How did each man influence and inspire Blacks to seek equality? What were the impacts of their assassinations?

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