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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of White families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?
(a) 71%.
(b) 41%.
(c) 55%.
(d) 45%.

2. When did the author's father join Floyd H. Flake's ministerial staff?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1989.

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

4. How much more likely are African Americans to die of cancer than Whites?
(a) 10%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 35%.
(d) 25%.

5. Who wrote The Souls of Black Folk in 1903?
(a) Addison Gayle Jr.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Eleanor Holmes.
(d) Gomes de Zurara.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said in 1965, "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, 'You are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair" (26)?

2. What did the author's father study in college?

3. What is defined in Chapter 2 as "One who is expressing the racist idea that a racial group is culturally or behaviorally inferior and is supporting cultural or behavioral enrichment programs to develop that group" (30)?

4. What does the author assert is "the heartbeat of racism, beating across ideologies, races, and nations" (14) in the Introduction?

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

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