2. When does the author describe performing in the final round of the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorial contest in the Introduction?
(a) January 17, 2000.
(b) March 15, 1995.
(c) June 2, 1998.
(d) September 12, 2003.

3. When was interracial marriage legalized in the United States?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1984.

4. Who was Charles Darwin's half cousin that powered the transatlantic eugenics movement?
(a) Chester Pierce.
(b) Nicholas Wade.
(c) Francis Galton.
(d) Robert Park.

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

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. Who wrote An American Dilemma?

3. Who wrote Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America?

4. How many students attended the high school that the author attended?

5. Who wrote A Study of American Intelligence?

(see the answer key)

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