Name Circle the letter that bears the correct answer to the following questions.
Question 1
which excerpt from Eighty Years and More supports the theme that everyone deserves equality in the
eyes of the law?
A. Until I was sixteen years old, I was a faithful student in the Johnstown Academy with a class of
boys. Though I was the only girl in the higher classes of mathematics and the languages...
B. Thus was the future object of my life foreshadowed and my duty plainly outlined by (my father)
who was most opposed to my public career when, in due time, I entered upon it.
C. I dare say the boys did not make their snowballs quite so hard when pelting the girls, nor wash
their faces with the same [forcefulness] as they did each other's ...
D. [T]ell them all you have seen in this office--the sufferings of these Scotch women, robbed of
their inheritance and left dependent on their unworthy sons ...
Question 2
Which excerpt from "W. E.B. Du Bois: Social Justice Leader” best supports the theme that a person can
make a difference in the world by standing up for justice and equality?
A. Seven years later, the US government returned his passport, and Du Bois left the United States.
He made his home in Ghana, Africa.
B. Du Bois traveled to Moscow, Russia, as part of the 1949 peace conference, and the US
government falsely accused him of being an agent of a foreign power, or in other words, a spy.
C. One year after Du Bois's death, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed in the United States; it
included many of the reforms that Du Bois had fought for during his nearly 100-year lifetime.
D. Du Bois rejected this view. He was against any form of compromise and in favor of full and
immediate equality. In response, Du Bois formed the Niagara Movement in 1905 with several
other civil rights leaders.