Capable of performing acts of singular atrocity

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According to ................'s typology if someone does have prejudice, but does not discriminate, he is known as...................

a. Adorno/Reluctant Liberal

b. Marx/ All weather Liberal

c. Merton/Timid Bigot

d. Engels/Racist Bigot

QUESTION 2

1. In the film Birth of a Nation, the "brute" was portrayed by Gus, who ran after the white girl, with the intention of.......................

inviting her to dinner

assaulting her

speaking to her

giving her a letter

QUESTION 3

1. Read the excerpt: "The mental condition of the negro is very similar to that of a child normally good natured, ....but subject to sudden fits .........he is capable of performing acts of singular atrocity, ........but often exhibiting in the capacity of servant a dog like fidelity ... Given suitable training the negro iS capable of becoming a craftsman of •considerable skill." In this statement the author is making what kind of assumptions about Africans?

Friendly

Stereotypical

Preliminary

Positive

QUESTION 4

1. The origins of the KKK go back to ..........when the first groups were organized in Atlanta, Georgia.

a. before the Civil War

b. 1800

c. 1915

d. after the WWI

QUESTION 5

1. 4..........is a fee a voter must pay in order to vote; in effect a voting tax that many African Americans were too poor to pay.

a. property test

b. Literacy test

c. poll tax

d. Grandfather Clause

QUESTION 6

1. The Dred Scott decision stated that the Congress has no power to forbid slavery in the U.S. territories.

True

False

QUESTION 7

1. Read the following:
People of African descent have migrated to Philadelphia since the seventeenth century. First arriving in bondage, either directly from Africa or by way of the Caribbean, they soon developed a small but robust community that grew throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Although African Americans faced employment discrimination, disfranchisement, and periodic race riots in the 1800s, the community attracted tens of thousands of people during World War I's Great Migration.
In this statement what is being said about people of African descent?

They were refugees

They came from Europe

They all worked at menial jobs

Some of them migrated from South during the first decades of the 20th century.

QUESTION 8

1. 6. Anne Moody was considered an "activist" even at an early age because .........(choose the best answer)

a. She was physically strong

b. She used to think a lot

c. She questioned people and events around her

d. She was keen about getting an education first

QUESTION 9

1. Who was James Meredith?

a college professor

a journalist

college student

a civil rights activist

QUESTION 10

1. Anne Moody's book is ....................(choose the best answer)

partly fictional

an autobiography

partly factual

"slave narrative"

QUESTION 11

1. 2. In ............. the group called "Indians of All Tribes," occupied this island .................

a. 1969 - Alcatraz

b. 2001 - Manhattan

c. 1696 - Coney island

d. None of the above

QUESTION 12

1. 3. In 1863 Emancipation Proclamation was first announced by Abraham Lincoln to give freedom to enslaved Africans.

a. True

b. False

QUESTION 13

1. Jim Crow is a

a. a term

b. a law

c. the name of an old show

d. all

QUESTION 14

1. Ethnic or racial slurs , including derisive nicknames, such as "wetbacks, cracker, gook" are known as ....................

ethnophaulism

racism

profiling

discrimination

QUESTION 15

1. The Birth of Nation (film) which was released in .................exposed the nature and origin of stereotypes against ...................
Choose the answer below.

a. 1900/African Americans
b. 1915/ African Americans
c. 1900/Native Americans
d. 1900/Whites in the South

QUESTION 16
1. Generally speaking The Great Migration in African American experience extends from 1930 to 1960.
State if the statement is true or false.

a. true

b. false

c.
d.

QUESTION 17

1. According to W.E.B DuBois the color line was the most significant problem causing divisions and hostilities among people and nations in Africa.

True

False

QUESTION 18

1. During her childhood Anne Moody lived in a house in........................ which had newspapers tacked to the walls; it was built out of old dried lumber.

a. Kentucky

b. Ohio

c. Mississippi

d. Louisiana

QUESTION 19

1. During her childhood Anne Moody lived in a house in........................ which had newspapers tacked to the walls, built out of old dry lumber.

a. Mississippi

b. Ohio

c. Wisconsin

d. Louisiana

QUESTION 20

1. According to the Dred Scott v.Sanford Supreme Court Decision in 1857 African Americans ..................................

cannot receive additional and money.

can be forced to return to enslavement,

cannot have livestock under Jim Crow laws.

are not U.S. citizens.

QUESTION 21

1. Subordinate groups are formed by migration, emigration, immigration, (state two more)....... ..................

annexation and submission

colonialism and annexation

integration and wars

awards and bribes

QUESTION 22

1. 5. In the reading from Encyclopedia Brittanica the "negro" is described as .....................
Of the following answers which is not mentioned in the essay?

1. cannibal

2. childish

3. belonging to a higher evolutionary plane

4. having poor mental ability

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