African American Studies
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Course Introduction
African American Studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores the history, culture, experiences, and contributions of people of African descent in the United States. The course examines key themes such as the legacy of slavery, resistance and civil rights movements, social justice, artistic expressions, and the ongoing quest for equality.
Students analyze texts, historical events, and cultural developments to gain a nuanced understanding of African American identity, societal impact, and the ways in which African Americans have shaped and been shaped by American society. Through critical inquiry and discussion, the course challenges prevailing narratives and highlights the diversity within the African American experience.
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Chapter 1: Africa
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Q1) What was not a general characteristic of the western Sudanese kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhai?
A) They were generally very peaceful, and prospered without the use of warfare.
B) Some of their cities became quite large and well developed.
C) Their main source of wealth was trade.
D) Muslims maintained at least a nominal presence in each.
Answer: A
Q2) Ancient Egyptians
A) tended to regard themselves as "white," but actually exhibited a mixture of racial features.
B) died out quickly and did not influence the development and culture of Greece and later Western civilizations.
C) were very dependent on the Nile for their protection, agriculture, transportation and communications.
D) left very few remains of their civilization in any form.
Answer: C
Q3) The Portuguese referred to the area around the Congo River as ____________. Answer: Angola
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Chapter 2: Middle Passage
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Q1) How many slaves were the British able to transport to the Americas when the demand for slaves was the highest?
A) Due to the inadequate technology available, the British really could only transport a few thousand a year.
B) The British customarily moved hundreds of thousands of slaves per year, with the development of new and wider types of ships.
C) Generally, between 10,000 and 20,000 people per year.
D) In the 1790s, the British moved approximately 50,000 slaves from Africa to the Americas.
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following is NOT true of Creoles or older Africans?
A) They were considered less valuable than other Africans for many reasons.
B) They generally were more familiar with the European languages.
C) They had become accustomed to the diseases and new climate of the area.
D) Since whites were in the minority of the population, they could help train new arrivals.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Black People in Colonial North America
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Q1) Which group of slaves was the most open in defying their masters?
A) newly arrived Africans
B) female slaves, especially those wishing to free their children
C) older slaves who had extensive knowledge of the area and its inhabitants
D) teenaged slaves
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following is not true about African American's cultural influence on whites?
A) Southerners began to use African-style phrases and intonations in language.
B) Whites frequently consulted slaves for herbal remedies and other medicines on the plantations.
C) Whites refused to eat African-style cooking, forcing them to make European-inspired dishes like fried chicken, black-eyed peas and collard greens.
D) Sometimes whites participated in the pre-Easter celebrations of Pinkster.
Answer: C
Q3) The term chattel means _________________.
Answer: personal property
Q4) Interracial sexual contact is also called ___________________.
Answer: miscegenation
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Chapter 4: Rising Expectations: African Americans and the
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Q1) What factor led to the abolition of slavery in the North?
A) The North's economy was not as dependent on slavery as was the South's.
B) The South was more likely to believe that God accepted slavery - religion was not as important in the North.
C) The North had never had slavery, except in some areas of New York, so it wasn't widespread.
D) Everyone in the North accepted the ideas of freedom for all from the beginning of their colonies
Q2) How did black women assist in the Patriot cause?
A) Black women joined their husbands in army camps, and defied the British in numerous ways.
B) Black women frequently went into battle with the men.
C) Black women wrote many pamphlets, spoke in public for the Patriot cause, and raised large amounts of money for black soldiers.
D) Because they were seen as physically and mentally weaker, women had no role in the war effort.
Q3) Black Loyalists were most common and numerous in the colonies of ______________ and ______________ during the Revolution.
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Chapter 5: African Americans in the New Nation, 1783-1820
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Q1) What did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 not do?
A) ban all slavery in territory west of the Appalachians after 1800
B) provide rules and regulations for the sale of land
C) support public education
D) provide ways for the area to form states and come into the union
Q2) Which of the following was not an effect of Gabriel's Rebellion?
A) Fearing for their lives, more whites began to liberate their slaves.
B) Gabriel's networks continued to exist and be influential after his death.
C) His message of liberation was spread westward with the slave trade.
D) Divisions within the slave community were revealed as some slaves were against him.
Q3) What famous foreign revolution was an influence on slaves planning uprisings in the United States?
A) the French Revolution
B) the revolution in Haiti, led by Toussaint Louverture
C) the massive Cuban Revolution of slaves in 1793
D) a slave uprising in Quebec, Canada, where slaves won their freedom from French masters
Q4) Which slave led a rebellion in Virginia in 1800?
Q5) What was the name of the first anti-slavery society in the world?
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Chapter 6: Life in the Cotton Kingdom
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Q1) What does the example of Celia and Robert Newsom in 1855 tell us about sexual exploitation of black women?
A) The court refused to accept that Celia had a right to defend herself from rape.
B) White men could be held accountable for the murder of their slaves, especially female slaves.
C) Sexual exploitation rarely happened, since generally the slave women instigated the matter.
D) Sometimes sexual relationships between white men and black women could be consensual.
Q2) Which of the following is not true about slave marriages?
A) Women and men were more equal as husband and wife than white couples.
B) Many masters allowed slaves to have legal, formal wedding ceremonies.
C) Couples sometimes did not live on the same plantation, and could only visit each other when the master allowed it.
D) Slaves tended not to take marriage very seriously, since they could be broken up at any time.
Q3) Who was the most famous of the animal tricksters found in African-American folktales?
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Chapter 7: Free Black People in Antebellum America
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Q1) Which African-American singer earned the nickname "The Black Swan"?
Q2) Where were the two largest African Methodist Episcopal churches?
A) Virginia and New Orleans
B) New York City and Philadelphia
C) Massachusetts and Vermont
D) Rhode Island and New York
Q3) What was a difference between free blacks in the Upper South and in the North?
A) Fewer free blacks lived in cities in the North than in the Upper South.
B) Upper South free blacks could be quickly sold into slavery to pay for the cost of their arrest, or to pay off debts.
C) Free blacks in the Upper South were always assumed by whites to be slaves unless they could prove otherwise.
D) Actually, free blacks in the Upper South had a lot in common with free blacks in the North.
Q4) What black institution continued to be the center of black communities?
Q5) What trend doomed the openly elitist Federalists party?
Q6) What party brought about the repeal of Ohio's black laws?
Q7) What was the term used to describe segregated facilities?
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Q8) Which party developed to support Andrew Jackson and oppose John Quincy Adams?
Chapter 8: Opposition to Slavery
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Q1) How did William Lloyd Garrison change the nature of the antislavery movement?
A) He attempted to exclude women from the antislavery movement.
B) He thought that whites should play the main role, and refused to allow any black membership in his organization.
C) He called for the immediate abolition of slavery, along with a commitment to racial justice.
D) He called for violent uprisings and the murder of slaveholders.
Q2) Why did some blacks endorse returning to Africa?
A) They wanted to bring Christianity to that continent.
B) They felt that Africa offered a better form of democracy.
C) They wanted to experience the culture of their ancestors, considered better than American society.
D) They agreed that Africa offered better living conditions.
Q3) What was one way women could enter the public sphere in nineteenth-century America?
A) through church and benevolent society activities
B) through running for public office
C) through speaking in public on whatever subject they wished
D) through secretly distributing books on politics
Q4) Other than Africa, where did some African Americans choose to migrate?
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Chapter 9: Let Your Motto Be Resistance
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Q1) Where did Madison Washington take the Creole to gain his and his shipmates' freedom?
A) Canada
B) British Bahamas
C) Haiti
D) Key West
Q2) What were some of the problems the antislavery movement encountered in its interracial efforts?
A) Whites refused to allow blacks to have equal status in the organizations, despite their language of equality and justice.
B) Antislavery organizations were actually very well integrated and allowed blacks huge levels of power.
C) The antislavery movement was completely white, and was never an interracial effort.
D) Whites in California refused to accept changes made by northern whites.
Q3) What was the usual destination of the slaves on the underground railroad?
Q4) What was the name of Frederick Douglass's influential newspaper?
Q5) The ________________ was a rule passed by Congress in effect forbidding any discussion of antislavery issues.
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Q1) What were the main issues in the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858?
A) the discovery of gold in California
B) slavery and race
C) secession of the South
D) the expansion of the powers of the federal government
Q2) What was the outcome of the African-American Rochester Convention in 1853?
A) African Americans were splintered over the fugitive slave acts, with the great majority simply wanting to remain silent until the matter blew over.
B) African Americans showed courage in refusing to submit to the laws and in looking for improvements for the future.
C) The convention, dominated by whites, pushed blacks into more menial jobs in New York.
D) The convention pushed for immediate migration to Africa for all who were able.
Q3) What is a "nativist" movement?
A) another word for abolitionist
B) the same thing as racism
C) anti-immigrant sentiment
D) another word for patriotism, believing in your native country
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Chapter 11: Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War
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Q1) Who was the Confederate officer in charge of the Fort Pillow massacre?
Q2) What is true about black service in the Navy as opposed to black service in the Army?
A) Blacks in the Navy rarely had to perform menial tasks, and they frequently received promotions to officer status.
B) Blacks had a tradition of continuously serving in the Navy in substantial numbers.
C) Blacks in the Army suffered from less discrimination than in the Navy.
D) All of these are true.
Q3) How was the 54th Massachusetts different from the South Carolina regiments?
A) The 54th was commanded by a black man.
B) The 54th was composed mainly of free blacks, rather than slaves.
C) The 54th included only black men from Massachusetts.
D) Because work for the 54th was so dangerous, they received more pay than the average white soldier.
Q4) What Union victory preceded Lincoln issuing the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation?
Q5) What Union commander began the policy of accepting runaway slaves as "contraband"?
Q6) Which black unit was involved in the assault on Battery Wagner in July of 1863?
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Chapter 12: The Meaning of Freedom: the Promise of Reconstruction
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Q1) Which denomination was especially fast growing in the South after Reconstruction?
A) Catholic
B) African Methodist Episcopal
C) Episcopalian
D) Methodist
Q2) What do Fisk, Hampton, Tougaloo, and Avery Colleges have in common?
A) They all began as all-white colleges, and changed to black institutions after the war.
B) They had nothing in common. Each was founded at different times, by different people, for different reasons.
C) They only taught literature and writing to blacks.
D) They were black schools established by religious organizations, along with the Freedmen's Bureau, after the Civil War.
Q3) What was the first concern of many African Americans once they achieved freedom?
A) forming churches
B) retaliating against former masters
C) reuniting with lost family members
D) moving to the northern cities
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Chapter 13: The Meaning of Freedom: the Failure of Reconstruction,
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Q1) Where was the Klan most powerful in the South?
A) where blacks were a huge majority of the population
B) where blacks were a large minority of the population
C) where blacks were a small minority of the population
D) the KKK was very powerful in all areas of the South
Q2) Why were many of the delegates to the constitutional conventions in 1867 and 1868 Republicans?
A) The Republican Party was well liked and accepted among southerners.
B) White Democrats boycotted the elections to protest Congress's Reconstruction plan and the effort to give blacks the vote.
C) The Republicans bribed blacks to support them, thereby gaining the upper hand at the conventions.
D) President Johnson issued an executive order stating that Republicans had to be a certain percentage of the delegates.
Q3) Which three states were still unredeemed in 1876?
A) Florida, Georgia, and Alabama
B) Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina
C) Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia
D) Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana
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Chapter 14: White Supremacy Triumphant: African
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Q1) What is significant about the year 1892?
A) The Populists failed to run a candidate for the presidency for the first time in 12 years.
B) The Populists eliminated the black vote in that year.
C) More people were lynched in that year than in any other in American history.
D) Southerners embraced all of the Populists ideas.
Q2) What was the problem, as viewed by many southern states, of voting laws like literacy tests, poll taxes, and property qualifications?
A) They thought the laws were too subtle and that voting should just be outlawed directly.
B) Since quite a few blacks owned property, they could still vote.
C) Since blacks could be voting registrars, they could simply override the tests and allow anyone in.
D) They might possibly also eliminate poor, illiterate white voters as well as black voters.
Q3) What system did white southerners devise for convicts, which provided very cheap (and mostly black) labor for businessmen?
Q4) What was the name of the case that upheld Louisiana's segregation laws?
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Chapter 15: Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy
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Q1) What issues did some blacks and whites bring up to criticize the Spanish-American War?
A) It was merely a way for Americans to kill off black Americans.
B) The war was far too costly, and would hurt America's economy..
C) Some saw it merely as an attempt to extend subjugation of darker races and Jim Crow laws outside America's borders.
D) That the war dragged on far too long.
Q2) Why were many black troops assigned to Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas?
A) Those states had significant uprisings of black citizens at the time.
B) Those states had the lowest population numbers, and many thought they would be a good place for blacks.
C) They were needed to fight the frequent forest fires that broke out, not for combat roles.
D) Whites thought that blacks could tolerate the heat better.
Q3) Which of the following teams did not allow black players after about 1887?
A) the Norfolk Red Stockings
B) the Cuban X Giants
C) the Chicago Unions
D) the Chicago White Stockings
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Chapter 16: Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African
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Q1) What was not true about the black upper-class in the early twentieth century?
A) They had wealth close to that of the very wealthiest whites.
B) They were often light skinned.
C) They were active in very exclusive social clubs, distancing themselves from the masses of blacks.
D) They were better educated than almost all other Americans of any race.
Q2) What was the result of Washington's scheming to destroy the NAACP?
A) He was successful-the NAACP was destroyed, and only returned with the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
B) He severely damaged the NAACP, and it would not gain in members until the 1950s.
C) The NAACP eventually triumphed, in goals and tactics.
D) Washington was revealed as a poor leader, and lost much support among whites.
Q3) How did military authorities keep Lt. Col. Charles Young, a black graduate of West Point, from commanding during WWI?
A) They could not. Young won a lawsuit allowing him to keep his command.
B) They had him shot in the leg by one of his white officers.
C) They said that he lacked the intelligence to command.
D) They forced him to retire, saying that he had high blood pressure.
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Chapter 17: African Americans and the 1920s
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Q1) What benefits did Marcus Garvey and his ideas bring to many black people?
A) His organization brought direct economic benefits, providing a minimum income to all members, regardless of class or race.
B) Garvey brought spiritual salvation to his followers, as he was primarily a Baptist minister.
C) His ideas brought an opportunity to celebrate their culture, history, and heritage in a world that generally saw them as inferior or meaningless.
D) Garvey brought few benefits to his members, as his organization was always very small and extreme.
Q2) How did the Pullman Company respond to Randolph's attempt to make gains for the porters?
A) Since they realized the union represented all of their porters, they had no choice but to give in to some demands.
B) The Pullman Company fired those who were in the union, and established their own company union.
C) The company gave the workers more dignity, when management adopted the slogan "Service not servitude."
D) None of these answers are correct.
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Chapter 18: Black Protests, the Great Depression, and the New Deal
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Q1) How were relief programs handled before the Great Depression?
A) through private charities and individuals
B) through the federal government
C) no charities or relief effort existed before the Great Depression
D) generally, cities had very extensive systems of aid to help the poor and unemployed
Q2) How did black voting patterns begin to change after the first election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
A) Blacks continued to stay with the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln.
B) Blacks began to shift to the Democratic Party.
C) Blacks briefly formed their own separate party, just as they had formed separate churches and other institutions.
D) Blacks split over Roosevelt, with their support about evenly divided between him and Hoover in 1936.
Q3) Which of the following was not a New Deal welfare program?
A) the Civilian Conservation Corps
B) the Civil Works Administration
C) the National Labor Relations Act
D) the Federal Emergency Relief Administration
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Chapter 19: Meanings of Freedom: Culture and Society in the 1930s
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Q1) What roles or jobs did African Americans generally have in radio?
A) Blacks were often staff musicians, since they were heard and not seen.
B) African Americans did much of the writing, acting, and directing for the show Amos 'n' Andy.
C) Blacks were completely excluded from the entertainment industry during the 1930s and 1940s.
D) Radio stations refused to hire any blacks as disc jockeys.
Q2) What 1930s movie most solidified blacks in the roles of servants in the American mind?
A) Belle of the Nineties
B) The Little Colonel
C) Gone With the Wind
D) Just Around the Corner
Q3) Where was the center of the black music world in the 1930s and 1940s?
Q4) How did Billie Holiday's song "Strange Fruit" protest racism?
A) The song was about the violence directed against black women with rape.
B) The song was about the difficulties of hunger and starvation among blacks in the Great Depression.
C) The song was about the horror and violence surrounding lynching.
D) The song was about segregation and the degrading character of racism.
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Chapter 20: The World War Ii Era and the Seeds of a Revolution, 1936-1948
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Q1) What was not a type of conflict that emerged as the NAACP grew during the war?
A) Leaders fought over the value of integration into white society.
B) Leaders fought over the continued dominant use of legal tactics.
C) Some leaders wanted to focus more on helping working-class blacks.
D) Leaders questions whether the group should exist at all, since progress had been made on racial issues.
Q2) What point did Du Bois and Ralph Bunche agree on regarding Africa?
A) Africa should come under American control for its benefit.
B) Blacks should immediately migrate to Africa to gain more civil and political rights.
C) African nations should be free from colonial control.
D) Africa should serve as a model for race relations in the United States.
Q3) What finally lifted the United States out of the Great Depression?
A) Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs
B) black business successes
C) military spending by the United States to prepare for World War II
D) the Kennedy administration, and the development of the atomic bomb
Q4) Who led the Dixiecrat Party revolt in 1948?
Q5) What area saw the most dramatic increase in black population during World War II?
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Chapter 21: The Freedom Movement
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Q1) What did the Supreme Court decide in the case of Browder v. Gayle?
A) Whites had a right to segregate anything they wanted to under the Fourteenth Amendment.
B) Blacks had no right to sue a private facility for discrimination.
C) Segregation in public transportation was unconstitutional.
D) Law schools had to be open to both blacks and whites.
Q2) Why did many African Americans support John Kennedy during the 1960 presidential election?
A) Many did not-he was seen as a typical racist from the South.
B) Kennedy, as governor of Massachusetts, had hired many blacks into important offices.
C) He made several important gestures, including helping King get released from prison.
D) Kennedy promised to desegregate the military and housing, and to allow black churches to be exempt from taxation in the South.
Q3) Who was responsible for the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers?
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Q1) Why was Berry Gordy important in black music and life?
A) He was the first black presidential candidate, in addition to founding Motown.
B) He contributed to the civil rights movement both through the production of black music, and also through financing important ventures.
C) He helped to stop the Detroit Race Riot, both in 1957 and 1967.
D) He was the primary politician behind the Civil Rights Act of 1964..
Q2) What was a goal of the Poor People's Campaign?
A) only to help poor people gain access to health care
B) to help poor people clean up their neighborhoods, and have better access to city services like garbage pickup
C) a federally guaranteed minimum income for everyone
D) to try to get better treatment from police, who constantly victimized poor blacks
Q3) To what religion or denomination did Malcolm Little convert while in prison?
A) Baptist
B) African Episcopalian Methodist
C) Nation of Islam
D) the Peace Mission Movement
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Chapter 23: African Americans at the Millennium
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Q1) How did Reginald Lewis become the wealthiest black man in America?
A) He was a music producer, for people like Michael Jackson.
B) He founded the computer company Microsoft.
C) He was a successful businessman.
D) He was a well-known actor in several films, under the name Denzel Washington.
Q2) Why have some blacks criticized gangsta rap?
A) It is generally too loud, and damages the eardrums of children.
B) Its lyrics are often anti-women, violent, and offensive.
C) It advocates having blacks in subordinate positions to whites in society.
D) It is generally only copying other musicians' creative efforts.
Q3) What two areas have seen increased migration to the United States since the 1960s?
A) the West Indies and Brazil
B) Africa and the West Indies
C) Brazil and Africa
D) Cuba and Ethiopia
Q4) For what did Pope John Paul II apologize in 1993?
Q5) What rap artist emerged to counter the images of women presented by gangsta rap artists?
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Q1) Who received the Democratic nomination for president in 1988?
A) Walter Mondale
B) Michael Dukakis
C) George Bush
D) David Dinkins
Q2) What is true about George W. Bush's appointments of African Americans in his administration?
A) He refused to appoint blacks as cabinet level advisers.
B) He generally followed Reagan's policy of only appointing token blacks to insignificant positions.
C) He appointed blacks to key posts, including Colin Powell as secretary of state and Condoleezza Rice as national security adviser.
D) He was the first president to have a majority of black advisers on his staff.
Q3) How does the black community feel about the idea of reparations for blacks to compensate for slavery?
A) As with many other issues, opinion is divided over reparations.
B) The black community is solidly behind the idea.
C) The black community is solidly against the idea.
D) Elite blacks seem to favor it, while poor blacks seem to be against it.
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