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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 the founding meeting of the Socialist Party of America?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1889.

2. Approximately what percentage of the U.S. population does the author assert Black people comprise?
(a) 22%
(b) 13%.
(c) 16%.
(d) 5%.

3. When was the Black Women's Alliance formed?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1955.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the author's ancestor Eliza born?

2. The author asserts in Chapter 8 that the use of what "to measure aptitude and intelligent is one of the most effective racist policies ever devised to degrade Black minds and legally exclude Black bodies" (124)?

3. To what Philadelphia neighborhood did the author move in August of 2005?

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

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)?

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