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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What Washington, D.C. prosecutor asked at an MLK birthday celebration in 1995, "Did Martin Luther King successfully fight the likes of Bull Connor so that we could ultimately lose the struggle for civil rights to misguided or malicious members of our own race" (113)?
(a) Nicholas Wade.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Jamie Johnson.
(d) Eric Holder.

3. What is the average U.S. life expectancy of a transgender woman of color, according to the author in Chapter 15?
(a) 35.
(b) 45.
(c) 55.
(d) 65.

4. When did Peter Brown write a book that leaned on his human hair collection to classify hair and stated, "The hair of the white man is more perfect than that of the Negro" (141)?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1779.
(d) 1895.

5. Who said in 2016, "Although black civil rights leaders like to point to a supposedly racist criminal justice system to explain why our prisons house so many black men, it's been obvious for decades that the real culprit is black behavior" (116)?
(a) Reverend Jamie Johnson.
(b) Eric Holder.
(c) Jason Riley.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Mark of Oppression: A Psychosocial Study of the American Negro?

2. What term does the author prefer to replace "microaggressions" (58)?

3. Who wrote the 2005 book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome?

4. On what date did President Bill Clinton state, "Blacks must understand and acknowledge the roots of White fear in America" (86)?

5. What seminal work did Molefi Kete Asante publish in 1980?

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