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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 - 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who warned in 1995, "Most inner-city children grow up surrounded by teenagers and adults who are themselves deviant, delinquent or criminal. A new generation of street criminals is upon us--the youngest, biggest and baddest generation any society has ever known" (94)?
(a) Isaac La Peyrere.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) John J. DiIulio.
(d) Chester Pierce.

2. What did the author's father study in college?
(a) Education.
(b) African American studies.
(c) Accounting.
(d) Sociology.

3. Where did the author perform in the final round of the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorial contest described in the Introduction?
(a) California.
(b) Texas.
(c) Virginia.
(d) New York.

4. Who was cursed by Noah in the Bible because his father viewed Noah in his nakedness?
(a) Peter.
(b) Adam.
(c) Canaan.
(d) Moses.

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)?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the author's father join Floyd H. Flake's ministerial staff?

2. How much more likely are African Americans to die of cancer than Whites?

3. When did Alexander Crummell found the first formal Black intellectual society?

4. What does the author assert "is the real Black on Black crime" (13) in the Introduction?

5. In 1993, what percentage of urban residents reported being victims of violent crime in the U.S.?

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