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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Over what university did Samuel Stanhope Smith preside in early America?
(a) Yale.
(b) Rutgers.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Princeton.

2. How much money did segregrationist Alabama spend on each Black student in public schools in 1930?
(a) $9.
(b) $15.
(c) $11.
(d) $7.

3. In 1930, how much money did segregationist Alabama spend for each White student in public schools?
(a) $32.
(b) $37.
(c) $56.
(d) $23.

4. Where did Ama Mazama earn her doctorate in linguistics?
(a) Yale.
(b) Oxford.
(c) La Sorbonne.
(d) Princeton.

5. When did revolutionaries eliminate capitalism in Cuba?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1951.

6. What Heritage Foundation president wrote in 2018, "Being black and the daughter of a former welfare recipient, I know firsthand the unintended harm welfare has caused" (187)?
(a) Oscar Lewis.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) E. Franklin Frazier.
(d) Kay Coles James.

7. When was Beyond the Melting Point published?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1944.

8. When was the author's ancestor Eliza born?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1919.

9. What was the Black poverty rate in 2017, according to the author in Chapter 12?
(a) 20%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 12%.
(d) 15%.

10. Who introduced the term "culture of poverty" (185) in a 1959 ethnography of Mexican families?
(a) Kenneth Clark.
(b) Oscar Lewis.
(c) Philomena Essed.
(d) E. Franklin Frazier.

11. What percentage of Black children born into single-parent homes did Charles Murray claim we had reached in 1994?
(a) 82%.
(b) 76%.
(c) 68%.
(d) 23%.

12. When was the term "colorism" coined?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1983.

13. When was Uncle Tom's Cabin published?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1852.
(d) 1859.

14. Who wrote Black Bourgeoisie in 1957?
(a) Oscar Lewis.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) E. Franklin Frazier.
(d) Havelock Ellis.

15. When were the Scottsboro Boys falsely accused of raping two Alabama White women?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1931.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

2. Who wrote The Plantation Negro as a Freeman?

3. Who wrote Dark Ghetto?

4. What is the average U.S. life expectancy of a transgender woman of color, according to the author in Chapter 15?

5. The author asserts in Chapter 8 that the use of what "to measure aptitude and intelligent is one of the most effective racist policies ever devised to degrade Black minds and legally exclude Black bodies" (124)?

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