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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did President Bill Clinton state, "Blacks must understand and acknowledge the roots of White fear in America" (86)?
(a) October 16, 1995.
(b) June 3, 1997.
(c) July 30, 1992.
(d) September 5, 2018.

2. When does the author describe Soul Liberation performing at the University of Illinois in Chapter 1?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1975.

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

4. Who said in 1965, "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, 'You are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair" (26)?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) James Cone.

5. Who wrote The Mark of Oppression: A Psychosocial Study of the American Negro?
(a) Abram Kardiner and Lionel Ovesey.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) James Cone and Eleanor Holmes.
(d) Joy DeGruy and James Baldwin.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the author's father join Floyd H. Flake's ministerial staff?

2. Where was the high school located that the author enrolled in for ninth grade?

3. Who wrote The Plantation Negro as a Freeman?

4. When does the author describe emerging into racial adolescence when his parents took him to a new school in Chapter 3?

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

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