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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Chapters 13 - 19).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main idea behind uplift suasion?
(a) That if Blacks pretended to not be able to read, they had a better chance of gaining acceptance.
(b) That if Blacks embraced their own culture, they had a better chance of being acceptance.
(c) That if Blacks became business owners themselves, they had a better chance of gaining acceptance.
(d) That if Blacks behaved admirably - which meant like White people - they had a greater chance of gaining acceptance.

2. What is the phrase Reynolds and Kendi use to describe Blacks who returned to America from Europe in 1919 after fighting in WWI?
(a) New Blacks.
(b) Enlightened Blacks.
(c) Mad Blacks.
(d) New Negroes.

3. When did the First Great Awakening happen?
(a) In the 1730s.
(b) In the 1750s.
(c) In the 1710s.
(d) In the 1690s.

4. Which white boxer did some Whites have hope would beat the best boxer in America in the early 1900s, who was Black?
(a) Mitchell Renderson.
(b) Bob Barkley.
(c) James J. Jeffries.
(d) Joseph Memory.

5. Who beat Abraham Lincoln in a race for a Senate seat in 1858?
(a) John Hardy.
(b) Alexander Hamilton.
(c) Frederick Douglas.
(d) Stephen Douglas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What period of time did uplift suasion seem to be working as intended in?

2. How did the world's first racist depict Africans in his book, according to Reynolds and Kendi?

3. What does Kendi say he wanted to explore in writing Stamped From The Beginning?

4. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

5. Who do Reynolds and Kendi argue was responsible for emancipating Black people?

(see the answer key)

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