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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the author's current middle name?
(a) Xolani.
(b) Xalen.
(c) Xanbi.
(d) Xavier.

2. Where did the author enroll in high school in the ninth grade?
(a) George Roberts High School.
(b) John Browne High School.
(c) Robert Kennedy High School.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr. High School.

3. When did the author's family move from New York to Virginia?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1997.
(d) 1995.

4. Who wrote in 1753, "I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites" (41)?
(a) David Hume.
(b) Gomes de Zurara.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) Eleanor Holmes.

5. When was The Origin of Species published?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1859.

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

7. What term is defined in Chapter 1 as: "when two or more racial groups are not standing on approximately equal footing" (24)?
(a) Cultural racism.
(b) Bodily racism.
(c) Racial inequity.
(d) Racial paucity.

8. Who wrote in The War On Cops, "The core criminal-justice population is the black underclass" (87)?
(a) Isaac La Peyrere.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Heather Mac Donald.

9. In what field did the author's mother take on a career?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Home decor.
(c) International banking.
(d) Healthcare technology.

10. According to the author, how much longer do White Americans live over their Black counterparts?
(a) 1.5 years.
(b) 3.5 years.
(c) 2.5 years.
(d) 4.5 years.

11. What percentatge of Black families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?
(a) 45%.
(b) 71%.
(c) 41%.
(d) 52%.

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

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

14. Where was the school that the author's parents took him to visit, as described in the narrative in Chapter 3?
(a) Greenwich Village.
(b) Staten Island.
(c) Long Island.
(d) Harlem.

15. What are the names of the author's parents?
(a) Amy and James.
(b) Carol and Larry.
(c) Rhonda and Sam.
(d) Emily and Jack.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the author describe emerging into racial adolescence when his parents took him to a new school in Chapter 3?

2. What U.S. senator told his colleagues in 1903, "The poor African has become a fiend, a wild beast, seeking whom he may devour" (87)?

3. Who said, "It is very difficult to find in the South today anything that can be traced directly back to Africa" (106) in 1919?

4. What middle name did the author's father choose for the author when he was born?

5. Who wrote Native Son?

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