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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much more likely are African Americans to die of cancer than Whites?
(a) 10%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 35%.

2. 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)?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1925.

3. Who wrote in 1978, "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently" (26)?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) Harry Blackmun.
(d) James Cone.

4. Who said, "It is very difficult to find in the South today anything that can be traced directly back to Africa" (106) in 1919?
(a) Robert Park.
(b) Gunnar Myrdal.
(c) Isaac La Peyrere.
(d) Chester Pierce.

5. When was The Origin of Species published?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1915.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

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

3. Where did the author perform in the final round of the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorial contest described in the Introduction?

4. Where was the school that the author's parents took him to visit, as described in the narrative in Chapter 3?

5. When was the film Hoop Dreams released?

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