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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the names of the author's maternal grandparents?
(a) Roberta and James.
(b) Mary Ann and Alvin.
(c) Sheila and Carl.
(d) Aretha and Jack.

2. What did the author's father study in college?
(a) Sociology.
(b) Accounting.
(c) African American studies.
(d) Education.

3. Who wrote in The War On Cops, "The core criminal-justice population is the black underclass" (87)?
(a) Robert Park.
(b) Heather Mac Donald.
(c) Isaac La Peyrere.
(d) Chester Pierce.

4. When did the author's father join Floyd H. Flake's ministerial staff?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1991.

5. Where did the author perform in the final round of the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorial contest described in the Introduction?
(a) Texas.
(b) California.
(c) New York.
(d) Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Latinx immigrant population in the U.S. in 1980?

2. Who wrote The Souls of Black Folk in 1903?

3. Who wrote Roots?

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?

5. What is the author's current middle name?

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