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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 - 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wrote "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action" in 1965?
(a) Kenneth Clark.
(b) Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
(c) Oscar Lewis.
(d) Havelock Ellis.

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

4. Where is Ama Mazama from originally?
(a) Jamaica.
(b) Guadeloupe.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Haiti.

5. What are the offspring of the conjoined twins of racism and capitalism that threaten to kill them and all of us off, according to the author in Chapter 12?
(a) Assimilation and segregation.
(b) Inequality, war, and climate change.
(c) Poverty and hatred.
(d) Sexism, homophobia, and war.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the immigrant student that the author describes teasing about his ethnic heritage in Chapter 5?

2. What novelist cointed the term "colorism"?

3. Who wrote Black Bourgeoisie in 1957?

4. The author states in Chapter 6 that in recent years, the University of Chicago Crime Lab worked with the One Summer Chicago Plus jobs program and found what percent "reduction in violent-crime arrests for Black youths who worked eight-week-long part-time summer jobs, compared with a control group of teens who did not" (98)?

5. Who wrote of the mulatto or biracial person that he is "a degenerate, unnatural offspring, doomed by nature to work out its own destruction" (141)?

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