Quiz for America Compared:
Freedom in the United States and Africa

Question

1. Which of the following statements summarizes Hailou Wolde-Giorghis’s argument?

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Correct. The answer is c. Wolde-Giorghis argued that, despite its claims, the United States had not achieved integration. The ability to enter white businesses and purchase goods or to attend white schools, he asserted, was not really integration. Real integration, in his view, required interracial communication and complete equality in the strictest sense of the word.
Incorrect. The answer is c. Wolde-Giorghis argued that, despite its claims, the United States had not achieved integration. The ability to enter white businesses and purchase goods or to attend white schools, he asserted, was not really integration. Real integration, in his view, required interracial communication and complete equality in the strictest sense of the word.

Question

2. The passages by Martin Luther King Jr. and Kwame Nkrumah share which of the following sentiments?

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Correct. The answer is b. These passages by King and Nkrumah suggest that these two men would have agreed that eliminating the legal foundations of racial inequality was sufficient to bring about a transformation in the social relationships between blacks and whites. They both argued that people needed only to lay aside past differences, acknowledge one another’s humanity, and move forward.
Incorrect. The answer is b. These passages by King and Nkrumah suggest that these two men would have agreed that eliminating the legal foundations of racial inequality was sufficient to bring about a transformation in the social relationships between blacks and whites. They both argued that people needed only to lay aside past differences, acknowledge one another’s humanity, and move forward.