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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who stated, "America's Black community ... has turned America's major cities into slums because of laziness, drug use, and sexual promiscuity" (115)?
(a) Gomes de Zurara.
(b) Reverend Jamie Johnson.
(c) Eric Holder.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

2. Who wrote The Conscience of the Conservative in 1960?
(a) Oscar Lewis.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) E. Franklin Frazier.
(d) Barry Goldwater.

3. To what Philadelphia neighborhood did the author move in August of 2005?
(a) Fishtown.
(b) Port Richmond.
(c) Chinatown.
(d) Hunting Park.

4. Who wrote The Negro a Beast?
(a) Edward Byron Reuter.
(b) Carl C. Brigham.
(c) Eric Holder.
(d) Charles Carroll.

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

6. Who wrote Dark Ghetto?
(a) Kenneth Clark.
(b) Philomena Essed.
(c) E. Franklin Frazier.
(d) Oscar Lewis.

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

8. Who wrote The Mark of Oppression: A Psychosocial Study of the American Negro?
(a) James Cone and Eleanor Holmes.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Abram Kardiner and Lionel Ovesey.
(d) Joy DeGruy and James Baldwin.

9. Who said in 1995, "It isn't racist for Whites to say they don't understand why people put up with gangs on the corner or in the projects or with drugs being sold in the schools or in the open" (113)?
(a) Reverend Jamie Johnson.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Eric Holder.
(d) Bill Clinton.

10. When was The Negro a Beast published?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1912.

11. When did the FAMU marching band play for Prince at the Super Bowl?
(a) 2000.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2012.
(d) 2007.

12. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(b) Charles Carroll.
(c) Carl C. Brigham.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

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

14. 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) E. Franklin Frazier.
(c) Kenneth Clark.
(d) Kay Coles James.

15. When was The Bell Curve published?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1936.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the author's ancestor Eliza born?

2. When did Harriet Tubman lead the Combahee River slave raid?

3. Who was the author's friend at Temple that he learned was gay?

4. When was the National Black Feminist Organization formed?

5. When did the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education take place?

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