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Question #1
The nation’s unemployment rate hit 25 percent during the Great Depression. African American unemployment was __________.
A.   impossible to measure
B.   double
C.   half
D.   equal
Question #2
During the Great Depression, Crisis editor W. E. B. Du Bois __________.
A.   withdrew from public life to study the impact of economic dislocation on black communities
B.   continued to support the NAACP’s legal strategy for bringing about an end to discrimination
C.   embraced the Communist Party as the only Americans willing to defend the Scottsboro boys
D.   had the growing conviction that the NAACP needed to shift its direction to combat both economic deprivation and racial discrimination
Question #3
As the Depression worsened, many black Americans—W. E. B. Du Bois included—grew dissatisfied with the “overly cautious” leadership of NAACP executive secretary, ________.
A.   Walter White
B.   Thurgood Marshall
C.   Charles Houston
D.   James Weldon Johnson
Question #4
The Howard University Law School dean who became the NAACP’s legal counsel was __________:
A.   Charles Houston
B.   Walter White
C.   Thurgood Marshall
D.   Moorfield Storey
Question #5
The Nation of Islam asserted the claim that __________.
A.   Christianity had African origins
B.   American racial categories were irrelevant in light of God’s revelation
C.   the end of the world was near and would begin with a race war
D.   blacks were a superior race and God was himself black
Question #6
The historian __________ expressed his strong sense of racial pride through his critique of higher education in his influential book, The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933).
A.   Marcus Garvey
B.   W. E. B. Du Bois
C.   Carter G. Woodson
D.   Benjamin Brawley
Question #7
During the 1930s, a minority of black ministers embraced __________ to address the economic problems of the Great Depression.
A.   accommodation with the white South
B.   fundamentalism
C.   black nationalism
D.   a “social gospel”
Question #8
The self-educated, charismatic preacher __________ convinced many Americans, both white and black, that he was the “true and living God.”
A.   Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
B.   Father Divine
C.   Billy Sunday
D.   Martin Luther King, Sr.
Question #9
One element that contributed to intensifying political militancy among black intellectuals during the 1930s was __________:
A.   the rise of anticolonial nationalism in Africa
B.   the role played by university presidents like Mordecai Johnson in inspiring young people
C.   outreach by the Democratic Party to urban youth
D.   remnants of the Garvey movement
Question #10
The founder of the National Council of Negro Women who was later appointed director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration under Franklin Roosevelt was __________.
A.   William Hastie
B.   Aubrey Williams
C.   Mary McLeod Bethune
D.   Robert Weaver
Question #11
In the 1936 presidential campaign, a historic shift in black political allegiance occurred when __________.
A.   a majority of black voters abandoned Roosevelt’s New Deal and supported the Republican Party
B.   a majority of black voters abandoned the Republican Party to support the Democrat Roosevelt
C.   nearly 50 percent of the black vote went to the Communist Party
D.   W. E. B. Du Bois rallied the black community around the Socialist Party candidate, Norman Thomas

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