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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the author's ancestor Eliza born?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1923.

2. How many students attended the high school that the author attended?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 1,000.

3. Where did the author's family move to in Virginia after leaving New York City?
(a) Roanoke.
(b) Manassas.
(c) Richmond.
(d) Charlottesville.

4. 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) Segregationist.
(c) Cultural elitist.
(d) Assimilationist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the author's father attend college?

2. From where did the author's maternal grandparents move to New York?

3. Who wrote in 1753, "I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites" (41)?

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

5. How much more likely are African Americans to die of cancer than Whites?

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