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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Chapters 20 - 23).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Three-Fifths Compromise state?
(a) That three-fifths of the states should be free states.
(b) That people should only get to vote in three-fifths of the toal number of elections.
(c) That three-fifths of the states should be slave states.
(d) That African Americans should count as three-fifths of a white person.

2. What do Reynolds and Kendi say is interesting about the Brown v. Board of Education case that is rarely discussed?
(a) It would be ten years after the case before Black children were actually allowed to attend predominantly White schools.
(b) The idea underlying the case decision is a fairly racist one.
(c) The Board of Education actually did want to desegregate schools.
(d) The case reversed several lower court decisions.

3. Which famous Black novelist do Reynolds and Kendo point out was notably not invited to speak at the March on Washington?
(a) Zadie Smith.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Toni Morrison.

4. How old was Thomas Jefferson in 1776?
(a) 76.
(b) 40.
(c) 16.
(d) 33.

5. What terrible event resulted in the deaths of four Black children in Birmingham in 1963?
(a) A car crash caused by White supremacists.
(b) A burning of a Black apartment building by White supremacists.
(c) The bombing of a church by White supremacists.
(d) A rally with guns held by White supremacists.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Du Bois ask to come speak at Atlanta University, where he was teaching, in 1906?

2. Which movie in the 1960s do Reynolds and Kendi compare to Tarzan and The Birth of a Nation?

3. What organization did Marcus Garvey start in Harlem?

4. What did the Fifteenth Amendment allow for?

5. What is the phrase Reynolds and Kendi use to describe Blacks who returned to America from Europe in 1919 after fighting in WWI?

(see the answer key)

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