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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Angela Davis begin teaching in 1968?
(a) University of California Los Angeles.
(b) University of Ohio.
(c) Northwestern University.
(d) University of Chicago.

2. Where did violence start to occur immediately after the signing of the Voting Rights Act, according to Reynolds and Kendi in Chapter 22?
(a) The Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.
(b) The South Side of East Bend.
(c) The Greenfield neighborhood of Chicago.
(d) The north side of Houston.

3. Who came out with the song Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud?
(a) James Brown.
(b) Jimi Hendrix.
(c) Sammy Davis Jr.
(d) Lenny Henry.

4. Which movie in the 1960s do Reynolds and Kendi compare to Tarzan and The Birth of a Nation?
(a) Slash.
(b) Sankofa.
(c) Planet of the Apes.
(d) Zartura.

5. Where was Angela Davis from?
(a) Birmingham.
(b) Pittsburgh.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Raleigh.

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

7. Which California governor sought to persecute Angela Davis, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
(a) James Monroe.
(b) Ronald Reagan.
(c) Marshall Mitchell.
(d) Arnold Helms.

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

9. Who do Reynolds and Kendi argue was responsible for emancipating Black people?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) James Madison.
(d) Black people.

10. Which new non-violent civil rights group had been established by the early 1960s?
(a) The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
(b) The Black Student Unions Unite.
(c) The Black Power Non-Violent Committee.
(d) The Student Civil Rights Board.

11. Which set of racist laws became enacted in the U.S. following the Civil War?
(a) Puritan laws.
(b) Johnson laws.
(c) Sunday laws.
(d) Jim Crow laws.

12. When was the Voting Rights Act passed?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1972.

13. When was the Civil Rights Act passed in the United States?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1964.

14. Who did Du Bois ask to come speak at Atlanta University, where he was teaching, in 1906?
(a) Frank Boas.
(b) Marshall Michbein.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Nikola Tesla.

15. Where was Stokely Carmichael born?
(a) Trinidad.
(b) Mali.
(c) Somalia.
(d) Senegal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title of James Baldwin's 1962 activist manifesto?

2. Which conflict happened during Abraham Lincoln's presidency?

3. Which of the following was Lincoln against?

4. Who raided the U.S. Armory in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, in 1859?

5. What did a New York Times editorial say about Malcolm X. in the wake of his death?

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