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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 - 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Systema Nature in 1735?
(a) Carl Linnaeus.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) Eleanor Holmes.
(d) Gomes de Zurara.

2. 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) Addison Gayle Jr.
(b) Audre Lorde.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) James Cone.

3. When did the author's family move from New York to Virginia?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1997.

4. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts?
(a) Paucity.
(b) Exoneration.
(c) Attribution.
(d) Leniency.

5. Wisconsin's strict voter-ID law suppressed approximately how many votes in the 2016 election?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 300,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 200,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the approximate uninsured rate of African Americans and Latinx Americans when President Barack Obama left office?

2. When did a bipartisan group of White legislators introduce the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, according to the author in Chapter 6?

3. Who coined the term "Ebonics"?

4. What percentage of White families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?

5. 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)?

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