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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote A Study of American Intelligence?
(a) Carl C. Brigham.
(b) Jason Riley.
(c) Edward Byron Reuter.
(d) Eric Holder.

2. Where did the author's family move to in Virginia after leaving New York City?
(a) Richmond.
(b) Roanoke.
(c) Charlottesville.
(d) Manassas.

3. Who said in 2016, "Although black civil rights leaders like to point to a supposedly racist criminal justice system to explain why our prisons house so many black men, it's been obvious for decades that the real culprit is black behavior" (116)?
(a) Jason Riley.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Eric Holder.
(d) Reverend Jamie Johnson.

4. 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)?
(a) Addison Gayle Jr.
(b) James Cone.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Lyndon B. Johnson.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who coined the term "microaggression"?

2. In 2015, what percentage of people killed by police were Black, according to the author in Chapter 6?

3. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

4. When was the term "microaggression" coined?

5. Who was the immigrant student that the author describes teasing about his ethnic heritage in Chapter 5?

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