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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said in 1980, "We have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals" (30)?
(a) James Cone.
(b) Audre Lorde.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

2. Who wrote Black Theology and Black Power in 1969?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) James Cone.
(d) Carl Linnaeus.

3. Who wrote The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea in 1453?
(a) Addison Gayle Jr.
(b) Carl Linnaeus.
(c) Gomes de Zurara.
(d) Eleanor Holmes.

4. What novelist cointed the term "colorism"?
(a) Eric Holder.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Carl C. Brigham.
(d) Alice Walker.

5. What is defined in Chapter 2 as "One who is expressing the racist idea that a permanently inferior racial group can never be developed and is supporting policy that segregates away that racial group" (31)?
(a) Arbitrator.
(b) Assimilationist.
(c) Cultural elitist.
(d) Segregationist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term is defined in Chapter 1 as: "when two or more racial groups are not standing on approximately equal footing" (24)?

2. When did the author's family move from New York to Virginia?

3. Who stated, "The blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to whites in the endowments both of body and mind" (27)?

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

5. Who wrote Native Son?

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