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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 wrote The Souls of Black Folk in 1903?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Eleanor Holmes.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) Gomes de Zurara.

2. The author states in Chapter 6 that in recent years, the University of Chicago Crime Lab worked with the One Summer Chicago Plus jobs program and found what percent "reduction in violent-crime arrests for Black youths who worked eight-week-long part-time summer jobs, compared with a control group of teens who did not" (98)?
(a) 56%.
(b) 7.4%.
(c) 34%.
(d) 43%.

3. Where did the author enroll in high school in the ninth grade?
(a) Robert Kennedy High School.
(b) George Roberts High School.
(c) John Browne High School.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr. High School.

4. Who was cursed by Noah in the Bible because his father viewed Noah in his nakedness?
(a) Canaan.
(b) Moses.
(c) Adam.
(d) Peter.

5. When did the author's father join Floyd H. Flake's ministerial staff?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1989.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does the author describe performing in the final round of the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorial contest in the Introduction?

3. When was The Origin of Species published?

4. Who wrote The Fire Next Time?

5. Who stated, "America's Black community ... has turned America's major cities into slums because of laziness, drug use, and sexual promiscuity" (115)?

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