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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 kind of book do Reynolds and Kendi tell the reader Stamped is not?
(a) Propaganda.
(b) Memoir.
(c) Poetry.
(d) A history book.

2. Who was the famously racist White police chief in Birmingham Alabama in 1963?
(a) Charles Rhodes.
(b) Marshall Creek.
(c) Robert James.
(d) "Bull" Connor.

3. What did the Puritans stipulate at the opening of the first U.S. university?
(a) Blacks were allowed to attend as long as they worked at the university, too.
(b) Greek and Latin texts could not be disputed.
(c) All the professors had to be priests.
(d) Women were allowed to attend, but only in small numbers.

4. Who wrote a biography of John Brown?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Phillis Wheatley.
(c) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(d) Frederick Douglass.

5. Who was one of Angela Davis's favorite authors?
(a) Toni Morrison.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Sojourner Truth.
(d) Charlie Ross.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who followed John F. Kennedy as president of the United States?

2. When was Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated?

3. Which Pennsylvania congressman fought for redistribution of land to award to former slaves after the Civil War?

4. What publication did William Lloyd Garrison often use as an antiracist sounding board?

5. Which new non-violent civil rights group had been established by the early 1960s?

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