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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 book Understanding Everyday Racism?
(a) Havelock Ellis.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) Philomena Essed.
(d) Oscar Lewis.

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

3. 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) Bill Clinton.
(b) Eric Holder.
(c) Reverend Jamie Johnson.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

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

5. 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) Chester Pierce.
(b) Isaac La Peyrere.
(c) Robert Park.
(d) Gunnar Myrdal.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Message to the Blackman in America written?

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

3. Who wrote The Mulatto in the United States in 1918?

4. When did a bipartisan group of White legislators introduce the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, according to the author in Chapter 6?

5. Where did the author attend fourth through sixth grades in school?

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