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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the nickname of the boy that held a gun on the author on the school bus, as described in Chapter 6?
(a) Smurf.
(b) Robot.
(c) Monster.
(d) Rat.

3. Who wrote An American Dilemma?
(a) Gunnar Myrdal.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Isaac La Peyrere.

4. What does the author assert is "the heartbeat of racism, beating across ideologies, races, and nations" (14) in the Introduction?
(a) Ignorance.
(b) Denial.
(c) Rage.
(d) Hatred.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts?

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

3. 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)?

4. What term does the author prefer to replace "microaggressions" (58)?

5. According to the author, "The 1882 Chinese Restriction Act was exted to an even broader act, encompassing a larger 'Asiatic Barred Zone'" in what year (76)?

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