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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What movement sprouted up alongside Carmichael's teachings?
(a) The Black Panther Party for Self Defense.
(b) The Black Underground Movement.
(c) The Velvet Underground Movement.
(d) The Black Pride Movement.

2. What did a New York Times editorial say about Malcolm X. in the wake of his death?
(a) That he should never have converted to Judaism.
(b) That he had relied too much on charisma.
(c) That he would be remembered as a student of non-violence.
(d) That his life was strangely and pitifully wasted.

3. In which year did President Woodrow Wilson win the U.S. presidency?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1928.
(d) 1912.

4. 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 rally with guns held by White supremacists.
(c) The bombing of a church by White supremacists.
(d) A car crash caused by White supremacists.

5. 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.

6. Who did the Dixiecrats run for President in the late 1940s?
(a) Strom Thurmond.
(b) Jesse Helms.
(c) Robert Baker.
(d) John C. Calhoun.

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

8. Which former Governor of Alabama ran for office in the 1960s on a platform of overt support for segregation?
(a) Robert Frendi.
(b) Marshall Bealleau.
(c) George Wallace.
(d) Major Grenet.

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

10. Which Supreme Court case ruled that school segregation in public schools was unconstitutional?
(a) Scott v. Wisconsin.
(b) Roe v. Wade.
(c) Brown v. Board of Education.
(d) Shelley v. Kramer.

11. What was W.E.B. Du Bois the "king" of, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
(a) Segregation.
(b) Education.
(c) Antiracism.
(d) Uplift suasion.

12. What was a major problem with the Black Power movement, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
(a) It lacked clear leadership.
(b) Its leaders were too young.
(c) It was sexist.
(d) It lacked money.

13. When did Stokely Carmichael first come to the United States?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1960.

14. Which president urged Congress to implement a civil rights act in 1948?
(a) Harry Truman.
(b) Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
(c) Bill Clinton.
(d) George H.W. Bush.

15. In what year did the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom take place?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1970.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which jail did Martin Luther King Jr. write a letter from in the early 1960s?

3. When did the Civil War end?

4. Who wrote the novel The Color Purple?

5. Which famous novel do Reynolds and Kendi mention in Chapter 20 and then quickly dismiss?

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