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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction - Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea in 1453?
(a) Addison Gayle Jr.
(b) Carl Linnaeus.
(c) Gomes de Zurara.
(d) Eleanor Holmes.

2. Who wrote the manifesto The Spook Who Sat by the Door?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Richard Wright.
(c) Sam Greenlee.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

3. Where was the school that the author's parents took him to visit, as described in the narrative in Chapter 3?
(a) Staten Island.
(b) Long Island.
(c) Harlem.
(d) Greenwich Village.

4. When did the author's mother celebrate her 31st birthday?
(a) June 24, 1982.
(b) March 15, 1995.
(c) September 12, 1980.
(d) June 2, 1998.

5. What term is defined in Chapter 1 as: "when two or more racial groups are not standing on approximately equal footing" (24)?
(a) Racial paucity.
(b) Racial inequity.
(c) Cultural racism.
(d) Bodily racism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "'Racist' isn't a descriptive word. It's a pejorative word" (14)?

2. Who wrote Systema Nature in 1735?

3. When does the author describe Soul Liberation performing at the University of Illinois in Chapter 1?

4. According to the author, how much longer do White Americans live over their Black counterparts?

5. Who stated, "The blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to whites in the endowments both of body and mind" (27)?

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