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History Quiz

Week of July 27, 2000

First, select your answers to each question. Then press "Get Score" to score your quiz.

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1. In what year did the United States impose literacy tests for immigrants?
1906
1917
1933
1945

2. What was "satyagraha"?

A form of marijuana
Russian tea
A Sunni prayer
Nonviolent protest

3. Who helped Malcolm X write The Autobiography of Malcolm X in 1965?

Booker T. Washington
Marcus Garvey
Alex Haley
Richard Wright

4. Who was the only congressional vote against the U.S.'s entry into both WWI and WWII?

Emmeline Blanche Wells
Isabella Hooker
Anne Martin
Jeanette Rankin

5. What was the name of the first atomic bomb exploded by the Soviet Union?

Alex V
Joe I
Lenin I
Krem III

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