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Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 46mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Why do the authors consider Zurara the world’s first racist?

a)

He worked for the king and was given more power than other racists.

b)

He was the first to write and defend Black human ownership.

c)

He was the first to own a Black person.

d)

He took the fall for Prince Henry who was really the first racist.

2.

What does Climate Theory believe?

a)

African people are inferior due to being on a hot continent.

b)

African people are better workers due to being on a hot continent.

c)

African people need missionaries due to being cursed in the bible.

d)

African people are mentally weaker due to the heat making it harder to think.

3.

What European settlers wrote the first piece of Antiracist writing in America?

a)

Slavery

b)

Missionaries

c)

Farm Workers

d)

Mennonites

4.

What subject was Cotton Mather especially interested in?

a)

Slavery

b)

Witchcraft

c)

Demons

d)

Developing racist codes

5.

What assimilationist idea did Benjamin Rush advocate?

a)

Black people were born savages but could be saved

b)

Black people were equal to white people in every way

c)

Black people were born as smart as White people but needed White help to access their intelligence

d)

Black people were made savages by slavery

6.

What revolution scared American slaveholders the most?

a)

The Caribbean Revolution

b)

The French Revolution

c)

The Haitian Revolution

d)

The American Revolution

7.

Which of the following is NOT true of Thomas Jefferson?

a)

He bred slaves to keep up with the demands of farm work.

b)

He attempted to stop the import of African slaves to America.

c)

He freed his slaves when he died.

d)

He supported the idea of using Freed Blacks to colonize Africa and Louisiana.

8.

When William Lloyd Garrison addressed ACS in 1829, how were his ideas different from their traditional ideas?

a)

Garrison thought the US should stop importing slaves but that slavery should continue.

b)

Garrison thought slaves should all be freed and sent to colonize Africa.

c)

Garrison believed Black people, while inferior to White people, should not be enslaved

d)

Garrison believed in a gradual abolition of slavery without colonization

9.

Why did Frederick Douglass go to Great Britain?

a)

Black people were given equal rights there

b)

His book told people he was a runaway and he was no longer safe in America

c)

He wanted Great Britain to initiate a war with the United States against slavery

d)

He was a presenting poetry that was included in his book with Phillis Wheatley

10.

Why did Lincoln oppose slavery?

a)

Slavery did not help poor White people—it was just for the rich

b)

Slavery was evil and Black people were equal to White people

c)

Slavery was wrong and Black people should be sent “back” to Africa

d)

. Slavery made creating new states more difficult and eliminating it would build the Union faster.

11.

At the end of William Lloyd Garrison’s life, what did he want for Black people?

a)

He wanted immediate emancipation and immediate equality.

b)

He wanted them to colonize the Dominican Republic.

c)

He wanted them to stay in the South to help fix the injustices there.

d)

He wanted them to colonize Kansas as a state for Black people.

12.

Which term would best identify W.E.B. Du Bois when he entered Fisk university?

a)

Segregationist

b)

Assimilationist

c)

Colonizationist

d)

Antiracist

13.

. How did Southern Black activists protest White oppression?

a)

They fought through their writing.

b)

They left the South.

c)

They started voting for politicians who supported them.

d)

They enjoyed Black entertainers and athletes.

14.

What pushed W.E.B Du Bois into Antiracism?

a)

The Great Depression

b)

World War I

c)

World War II

d)

Reconstruction

15.

What event finally pushed President Kennedy to summon Congress to pass Civil Rights Legislation?

a)

Brown V. the Board of Education

b)

Lunch counter sit-ins

c)

Dr. King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail”

d)

Bull Connor’s attack on children

16.

What legislation was the most effective piece of antiracist legislation ever passed in America?

a)

Civil Rights Act of 1875

b)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

c)

The Biography of Malcolm X

d)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

17.

What event grew the Black Power movement to be the largest American antiracist movement ever?

a)

The shooting of President Kennedy

b)

The release of the movie Planet of the Apes

c)

The arrival of Stokely Carmichael to the United States

d)

The shooting of Dr. Martin Luther King

18.

What reason was given for charging Angela Davis with murder?

a)

A gun used by Jonathan Jackson was hers.

b)

She was a communist.

c)

She killed a judge while trying to free a prisoner.

d)

She ran from the FBI.

19.

What family created racist ideas of how a Black family should operate?

a)

Ronald Reagan's family.

b)

Angela Davis's family.

c)

Charles Krauthammer's family.

d)

Heathcliff Huxtable's family.

20.

What group was targeted in Bill Clinton’s “3 strikes and you’re out“ _law? (select 2)

a)

White racists

b)

Black men

c)

Nonviolent drug offenders

d)

Violent offenders

e)

Rappers

21.

What did Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray argue in The Bell Curve?

a)

Intelligence tests were unfair and biased.

b)

Standardized testing was unfair and biased.

c)

Standardized testing was outdated but still provided important insights.

d)

Standardized testing was valid and fair.

22.

What event caused the antiracist momentum of the United Nations World Conference Against Racism to stop?

a)

The election of George W. Bush

b)

The 9/11 attacks

c)

The OJ Simpson Trial

d)

The Celera Genomics study which found the genetic difference between races

23.

What critique do the authors offer of Obama when he was under pressure?

a)

He became too antiracist

b)

He became too segregationist

c)

He became too progressive

d)

He became too assimilationist