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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which socialist thinker inspired W.E.B. Du Bois's thinking later in life?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Percy Wilson.
(c) Carl Jung.
(d) Joseph Stalin.

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

3. What is Tarzan's original name in the novel?
(a) David Banner.
(b) Tony Stark.
(c) Steve Rogers.
(d) John Clayton.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem did Malcolm X. have with the Civil Rights Bill?

2. What was the first thing Marcus Garvey did upon arriving in New York in 1916?

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

4. What institution did Booker T. Washington attend?

5. Who was the famously racist White police chief in Birmingham Alabama in 1963?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Reynolds and Kendi, how did Roosevelt's New Deal affect Black people?

2. What did President Woodrow Wilson fear about Black soldiers' experiences in Europe during WWI?

3. Why was Angela Davis charged with murder?

4. What is one major change that Stokely Carmichael brought into the antiracist fight?

5. What happened when President Harry Truman urged Congress to pass a civil rights act in 1948?

6. What do Reynolds and Kendi say that Black people were doing even as Lincoln was labeled the Great Emancipator?

7. What new ideas did W.E.B. Du Bois embrace later in his life in Chapter 19?

8. What did Tarzan symbolize for White people?

9. Which politician did Richard Nixon model his run for the presidency from, and why?

10. How did Angela Davis feel about the teachings of Malcolm X?

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