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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the author's father join Floyd H. Flake's ministerial staff?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1991.

2. When does the author describe emerging into racial adolescence when his parents took him to a new school in Chapter 3?
(a) 5.
(b) 13.
(c) 7.
(d) 9.

3. When does the author describe Soul Liberation performing at the University of Illinois in Chapter 1?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1960.

4. Who said in 1980, "We have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals" (30)?
(a) James Cone.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) Audre Lorde.

5. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts?
(a) Leniency.
(b) Paucity.
(c) Exoneration.
(d) Attribution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote An American Dilemma?

2. Who wrote The Souls of Black Folk in 1903?

3. When did the author's mother celebrate her 31st birthday?

4. What does the author assert "is the real Black on Black crime" (13) in the Introduction?

5. What was the nickname of the boy that held a gun on the author on the school bus, as described in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the author no longer use the term "microaggression" anymore?

2. How is "ethnic racism" defined by the author?

3. What is an "assimilationist"?

4. How is "racial inequity" defined by the author?

5. How does the author describe his feelings about the speech he gave, as described in the Introduction?

6. What led the author to "protest" in third grade?

7. What was the Black Power movement?

8. What does Plessy v. Ferguson refer to?

9. How does the author describe entering "racial puberty" in Chapter 3?

10. How does the author describe his third grade teacher in Chapter 4?

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