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Black History Month Vocabulary Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Choose the word that means:a tradition handed down from generation to generation.

a)

culture

b)

heritage

c)

diversity

2.

Choose the correct spelling which means:The beliefs, social practices, and characteristics of a racial, religious, or social group.

a)

calture

b)

culter

c)

culture

d)

cutlere

3.

What does the following word mean?advocate.

a)

someone who stands for peace and peaceful means to accomplish a goal.

b)

a person who believes in taking action (as a mass demonstration) for social justice

c)

to speak in favor of or to argue for

4.

Which of the following is both a noun and also a verb?

a)

heritage

b)

culture

c)

riot

d)

abolish

5.

A peaceful protest where a group of African Americans and pacifists would sit in the White section of a restaurant to protest against segregation.Choose the correct word:

a)

riot

b)

advocate

c)

civil rights

d)

sit-in

6.

Which of the following is the opposite of segregation?

a)

diversity

b)

integration

c)

discrimination

d)

activist

7.

Which is the meaning of discrimination?

a)

the beliefs, social practices, and characteristics of a racial, religious, or social group

b)

to get rid of

c)

unjust and unkind feelings towards a person or group of people

8.

What does activist mean?

a)

a person who believes in taking action (as a mass demonstration) for social justice

b)

to speak in favor of or to argue for

c)

opposite of segregation, to accept as equals into society without barriers

d)

a tradition handed down from generation to generation

9.

What is the meaning of :opposite of segregation, to accept as equals into society without barriers.

a)

civil rights

b)

culture

c)

integration

d)

heritage

10.

In 1863 a movement and a secret mapped out path for slaves to secretly escape to the Northern states or Canada to obtain their freedom .

a)

sit-in

b)

pacifist

c)

Underground Railroad

d)

culture