1. Historians now believe the percentage of free Black people and escaped slaves in the organized abolitionist groups was

d. 50%.

2. To those apologists for slavery who argued that slaves were better off than white laborers, abolitionist leader Frederick Douglas answered that

c. he never heard anyone who argued that slaves were better off than poor white people volunteer to become a slave.

3. The Socialist Party failed to organize Black workers and fight racism because it

c. believed that Black people were workers indistinguishable from all other workers, and their problems would only be solved in the future by establishing socialism.

4. The Communist Party USA has had significant success in organizing African American and other minority workers since the 1920s because it

c. saw African American people as both an integral part of the working class and an oppressed people with special needs and demands, and saw the struggle against racism as inseparable from the struggle for socialism.

5. The Communist Party USA, was the first party in U.S. history to regularly have African American candidates on its national ticket. Which one of the following was not a candidate on a CPUSA national ticket?

d. Clarence Thomas

Your score:

0 wrong: Theoretician. Write an article! Teach a class!!
1 wrong: Developed Marxist. Form a study group, join the party.
2 to 3 wrong: Developing Marxist. Keep studying and stay in the struggle!
4 to 5 wrong: Danger! deviations possible. study and then study some more lest you drift into the marsh of opportunism!