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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Bill Cosby tell the NAACP "we are not Africans" (106)?
(a) 2004.
(b) 2002.
(c) 1996.
(d) 2000.

2. Where did the author attend fourth through sixth grades in school?
(a) John Brown Middle School.
(b) St. Edward's Parish Day School.
(c) Peake Middle School.
(d) St. Joseph's Parish Day School.

3. What was the Latinx immigrant population in the U.S. in 1980?
(a) 6.2 million.
(b) 4.2 million.
(c) 10.3 million.
(d) 14.1 million.

4. What does the author assert "is the real Black on Black crime" (13) in the Introduction?
(a) Individualized racism.
(b) Cultural racism.
(c) Institutionalized racism.
(d) Internalized racism.

5. Who wrote the 2005 book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome?
(a) Eric Holder.
(b) Jason Riley.
(c) Joy DeGruy.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the presidential election in 2000, how many ballots were invalidated by Florida election officials?

2. What adored civil-rights lawyer wrote in The New York Times in 1985 that the "remedy ... is not as simple as providing necessities and opportunities," but urged the "overthrow of the complicated predatory ghetto subculture" (33)?

3. Who stated, "America's Black community ... has turned America's major cities into slums because of laziness, drug use, and sexual promiscuity" (115)?

4. Who coined the term "Ebonics"?

5. According to the author, "The 1882 Chinese Restriction Act was exted to an even broader act, encompassing a larger 'Asiatic Barred Zone'" in what year (76)?

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