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What do you really know?

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

His Hall of Fame plaque says he hit "almost 800" home runs in his career. He is considered the all-time professional baseball player career home run leader:

a)

Barry Bonds

b)

Josh Gibson

c)

Hank Aaron

d)

Sadaharu Oh

e)

Babe Ruth

2.

This explorer is known worldwide for his travels. He amassed over 75,000 miles traveled by land and sea during and after the Middle Ages.

a)

Ibn Battuta

b)

Marco Polo

c)

Magellen

d)

Zheng He

3.

How much money was Mansa Musa worth?

a)

40 billion

b)

400 million

c)

400 trillion

d)

400 billion

4.

This book reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America. Examining navigation and shipbuilding;

a)

Cahokia: City of the Sun

b)

They Came Before Columbus

c)

A People's History of the United States

d)

Civilization or Barbarism

e)

Stamped from the Beginning

5.

The inventions: Computer Algorithms, Globes, Fire Escape, Car heaters, the first monopoly game, bullet-proof fiber all have this in common

a)

all invented by women

b)

all invented by persons with a disability

c)

all invented in the 21st century

d)

all invented by black men

6.

The first African American to play regularly in the big leagues wasn't the Brooklyn Dodgers second baseman, it was

a)

Josh Gibson

b)

Satchel Paige

c)

Moses Fleetwood “Fleet” Walker

d)

Jackie Robinson

e)

James "Cool Papa" Bell

7.

“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and Black races,” he began, going on to say that he opposed Black people having the right to vote, to serve on juries, to hold office and to intermarry with whites. This quote can be attributed to

a)

Donald Trump

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

George Washington

e)

Alexander Hamilton

8.

If peace means a willingness to be exploited economically, dominated politically, humiliated and segregated, I don't want peace. If peace means being complacently adjusted to a deadening status quo, I don't want peace. If peace means keeping my mouth shut in the midst of injustice and evil, I don't want it... Who said this:

a)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Malcolm X

c)

John F. Kennedy

d)

John Lewis

9.

Who (was the first to challenge bus segregation) said this in response to police officer asking, "Aren't you going to get up?" "No...I don't have to get up. I paid my fare, so I don't have to get up...It's my constitutional right to sit here just as much as that [white] lady."

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Edwina Johnson

c)

Mary Louise Smith

d)

Claudette Colvin

10.

The original name for Egypt is __________________________?

a)

Kale

b)

Kiokin

c)

Kemet

d)

Karma

11.

Called the MLK of Birmingham, he was essential in the planning of the Selma to Montgomery marches during the Civil Rights Movement.

a)

Bayard Rustin

b)

Fred Shuttlesworth

c)

John Lewis

d)

Stokley Carmichael

12.

Murasaki Shikibu's (a)   has been considered as the world's first novel.

13.

Shirley Chisholm was the FIRST....

a)

African American president

b)

woman poet to win an award

c)

African American woman in Congress

d)

African American sprinter

14.

What part of Henrietta Lacks was used to help cure diseases?

a)

her blood

b)

her hair

c)

her cells

d)

her lungs

15.

John Amaechi was the first NBA player to...

a)

break the record for most points in a game

b)

publicly come out as gay

c)

quit in the middle of a game

16.

Slavery did not end in this state until 1827, where, according to Ira Berlin, slaves were at least 50% of those who built and maintained the City and 20% of its total population.

a)

Missouri

b)

Ohio

c)

New York

d)

Pennsylvania

17.

____-speaking settlements, such as St. Augustine (1565) means this language was the first European language spoken in the United States.

a)

French

b)

Spanish

c)

English

d)

Italian

18.

This groups Civil Rights Movement in America was inspired by Black Power and the Opposition to the Vietnam War in the late 1960s and lasted through much of the 1970s.

a)

Chicano Movement

b)

Women's Liberation

c)

Asian American

d)

Hippies

19.

Thomas Edison was widely considered a genius after he invented the light bulb. But some say Edison is not the sole inventor. In fact, there were over 20 inventors who had created the incandescent light bulb before him. Additionally, it's rumored that he borrowed (or stole) details from those other inventors. One was a black man named:

a)

Lewis Latimer

b)

Chales Drew

c)

Homer G. Phillips

d)

George Washington Carver, Jr.

20.

How did you do on the quiz?

a)

Better than I expected

b)

Worse than I expected

c)

Exactly as I expected