View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Message to the Blackman in America written?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1972.

2. Who wrote The Fire Next Time?
(a) Richard Wright.
(b) Sam Greenlee.
(c) James Baldwin.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

3. Who wrote Roots?
(a) Francis Galton.
(b) Chester Pierce.
(c) Thomas Dixon.
(d) Alex Haley.

4. Where was the school that the author's parents took him to visit, as described in the narrative in Chapter 3?
(a) Long Island.
(b) Harlem.
(c) Staten Island.
(d) Greenwich Village.

5. Who wrote in The War On Cops, "The core criminal-justice population is the black underclass" (87)?
(a) Chester Pierce.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Heather Mac Donald.
(d) Isaac La Peyrere.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Washington, D.C. prosecutor asked at an MLK birthday celebration in 1995, "Did Martin Luther King successfully fight the likes of Bull Connor so that we could ultimately lose the struggle for civil rights to misguided or malicious members of our own race" (113)?

2. Who wrote the manifesto The Spook Who Sat by the Door?

3. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

4. Who wrote An American Dilemma?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 213 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample