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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Staten Island.
(c) Harlem.
(d) Greenwich Village.

2. What term is defined in Chapter 1 as: "when two or more racial groups are not standing on approximately equal footing" (24)?
(a) Racial inequity.
(b) Racial paucity.
(c) Cultural racism.
(d) Bodily racism.

3. Who taught the class "The Black Aesthetic" that the author's father attended in college?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Sam Greenlee.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) James Baldwin.

4. What U.S. senator told his colleagues in 1903, "The poor African has become a fiend, a wild beast, seeking whom he may devour" (87)?
(a) Benjamin Tillman.
(b) Chester Pierce.
(c) Isaac La Peyrere.
(d) Robert Park.

5. Who wrote A Study of American Intelligence?
(a) Eric Holder.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Carl C. Brigham.
(d) Jason Riley.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 2016, what percentage of urban residents in the U.S. reported being victims of violent crimes?

2. Who signed the Immigration Act of 1924 into law?

3. What did the author's father study in college?

4. When does the author describe emerging into racial adolescence when his parents took him to a new school in Chapter 3?

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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