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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By how many votes did Donald Trump win the state of Wisconsin in the 2016 election?
(a) 45,353.
(b) 22,748.
(c) 14,634.
(d) 29,245.

2. Over what university did Samuel Stanhope Smith preside in early America?
(a) Yale.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Rutgers.
(d) Harvard.

3. Who wrote of the mulatto or biracial person that he is "a degenerate, unnatural offspring, doomed by nature to work out its own destruction" (141)?
(a) Josiah Nott.
(b) Eric Holder.
(c) Edward Byron Reuter.
(d) Charles Carroll.

4. Who wrote An American Dilemma?
(a) Isaac La Peyrere.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Gunnar Myrdal.
(d) Chester Pierce.

5. What percentatge of Black families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?
(a) 52%.
(b) 41%.
(c) 71%.
(d) 45%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the author's father attend college?

2. What U.S. senator told his colleagues in 1903, "The poor African has become a fiend, a wild beast, seeking whom he may devour" (87)?

3. What case before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized Jim Crow segregation in 1896?

4. Who coined the term "microaggression"?

5. When was The Negro a Beast published?

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