Black History Month quiz

 

  1. Negro League Pitcher Satchel Paige played with which famous band leader?
    1. Benny Goodman
    2. Duke Ellington
    3. Louis Armstrong
    4. Doc Severison

 

  1. In the "Tuskegee Experiment," the United States monitored 399 black men with syphilis for 40 years to see what would happen to them -- even though the men were never told they had syphilis and a cure for the disease was discovered decades before the experiment ended.    True or False.

 

  1. Wrote the poem "Harlem," a passage from which reads: "What happens to a dream deferred?/Does it dry up/like a raisin in the sun?/Or fester like a sore -- /And then run? . . . Maybe it just sags/like a heavy load./Or does it explode?"
    1. Zora Neale Hurston
    2. Langston Hughes
    3. Maya Angelou
    4. Malcolm X

 

  1. The principles of unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith are part of:
    1. MLK, Jr.’s speeches
    2. Kwanzaa
    3. Black Muslim Teachings
    4. Malcolm X’s teachings

 

  1. Which of the following is a historically black college?
    1. Hillman College
    2. Howard University
    3. Tuskegee University
    4. Albright College

 

 

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