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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the 2014 book A Troublesome Inheritance?
(a) Nicholas Wade.
(b) Chester Pierce.
(c) Francis Galton.
(d) Robert Park.

2. When was the term "microaggression" coined?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1975.

3. Who said, "It is very difficult to find in the South today anything that can be traced directly back to Africa" (106) in 1919?
(a) Gunnar Myrdal.
(b) Chester Pierce.
(c) Robert Park.
(d) Isaac La Peyrere.

4. According to the author, "The 1882 Chinese Restriction Act was exted to an even broader act, encompassing a larger 'Asiatic Barred Zone'" in what year (76)?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1932.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Dark Ghetto published?

2. Who wrote Men Before Adam in 1655?

3. 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)?

4. Who wrote The Color Purple?

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

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