Are you multiculturally literate?

Let's face it, America and its history are not what most people have always thought it was. It is not a neat story written in a book or even a hundred books. So many voices have been silenced for so long that our historical chorus has often sounded like a brass band with only one trumpet and a beat up tuba. But that�s changing, and if you�re not changing with it, you�re going to look and sound seriously old.

Are you a multiculturally literate person? Do you know who really built and continues to build the United States? Is the diverse nature of the country an open book to you? Try this quiz to find out!

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1. There were African Americans in the colonies before the Pilgrims arrived in the Mayflower.
True
False
2. Who was the first person killed in the American Revolution?
Nathan Hale
Crispus Attucks
Molly Pitcher
Paul Revere
3. Who invented the Cherokee writing system?
Sequoyah
Tecumseh
Chief Joseph
Sacagawea
4. Who was the great Underground Railroad conductor known as �Moses�?
Nat Turner
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Martin Luther King, Jr.
5. Which document made slavery illegal in the United States?
Bill of RIghts
Emancipation Proclamation
Thirteen Amendment
Civil Rights Act
6. In what year was the first women�s rights convention held?
1848
1908
1928
1968
7. Japanese Americans were placed in internment camps during which war?
World War I
World War II
Viet Nam
All of the above
8. In what year did women gain the right to vote in U. S. elections?
1870
1900
1920
1960
9. In what year did the Stonewall Riots take place, making the gay rights movement a national force?
1897
1921
1969
1987
10. Who was the first Japanese American to serve in the U. S. Senate?
Sessue Hayakawa
Miyoshi Umeki
Dave Roberts
Daniel Inouye
11. What position did Wilma Mankiller hold?
Translator and guide for the Powell Expedition
Governor of Alaska
Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
Founder and President of New York Radical Feminists
12. What did George Washington Carver become famous for?
Fighting against slavery
Doing agricultural research
Leading the Tuskegee Airmen
Founding the NAACP
13. Who broke the color barrier in Major League baseball?
Jack Johnson
Satchel Paige
Jackie Robinson
Willie Mays
14. The U. S. armed forces were integrated during World War II.
True
False
15. The famous �Code Talkers,� who helped the U. S. win World War II in the Pacific, belonged to what ethnic group?
Native Americans
African American
Latin Americans
Rumanian Americans
16. Who was the first woman to become a supreme court justice?
Belva Lockwood
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Barbara Jordan
Sandra Day O'Connor
17. More than a third of all American Nobel Prize winners have been of Jewish ancestry.
True
False
18. Who was the first U. S. woman astronaut?
Amelia Earhart
Mae Jemison
Sally Ride
Valentina Tereshkova
19. Which of these actors is of Hispanic ancestry?
Martin Sheen
Rita Hayworth
Lynda Carter
All of the above
20. Interracial marriages were illegal in 19 states until a 1967 Supreme Court ruling.
True
False
21. Which of the following states entered the Union with both a large African American population and a large Native American population?
Utah
Alaska
Oklahoma
All of the above
22. Which of the following writers was openly gay?
James Baldwin
Gertrude Stein
Truman Capote
All of the above
23. Who was the first woman to own and produce her own syndicated television show?
Dinah Shore
Betty White
Carol Burnett
Oprah Winfrey

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