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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 signed the Immigration Act of 1924 into law?
(a) Isaac La Peyrere.
(b) Chester Pierce.
(c) Robert Park.
(d) Calvin Coolidge.

2. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Carl C. Brigham.
(b) Charles Carroll.
(c) Edward Byron Reuter.
(d) Harriet Beecher Stowe.

3. Who said in 1980, "We have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals" (30)?
(a) James Cone.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Audre Lorde.

4. In what field did the author's mother take on a career?
(a) International banking.
(b) Healthcare technology.
(c) Home decor.
(d) Architecture.

5. Who did the author's ancestor Eliza marry?
(a) Andrew.
(b) Jack.
(c) Robert.
(d) Lewis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The End of Racism in 1995?

2. Who wrote of the mulatto or biracial person that he is "a degenerate, unnatural offspring, doomed by nature to work out its own destruction" (141)?

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

4. What novelist cointed the term "colorism"?

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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