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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adored civil-rights lawyer wrote in The New York Times in 1985 that the "remedy ... is not as simple as providing necessities and opportunities," but urged the "overthrow of the complicated predatory ghetto subculture" (33)?
(a) Eleanor Holmes.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) James Cone.

2. Who was Charles Darwin's half cousin that powered the transatlantic eugenics movement?
(a) Robert Park.
(b) Francis Galton.
(c) Nicholas Wade.
(d) Chester Pierce.

3. What does the author assert "is the real Black on Black crime" (13) in the Introduction?
(a) Institutionalized racism.
(b) Individualized racism.
(c) Internalized racism.
(d) Cultural racism.

4. Who wrote The Plantation Negro as a Freeman?
(a) Edward Byron Reuter.
(b) Jason Riley.
(c) Eric Holder.
(d) Alexander Bruce.

5. What percentatge of Black families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?
(a) 41%.
(b) 45%.
(c) 71%.
(d) 52%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wisconsin's strict voter-ID law suppressed approximately how many votes in the 2016 election?

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

3. Where did the author enroll in high school in the ninth grade?

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)?

5. Where was the school that the author's parents took him to visit, as described in the narrative in Chapter 3?

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