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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did a bipartisan group of White legislators introduce the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, according to the author in Chapter 6?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1993.

2. Who stated, "The blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to whites in the endowments both of body and mind" (27)?
(a) George Washington.
(b) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

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

4. Who said in 1965, "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, 'You are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair" (26)?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) James Cone.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

5. Who coined the term "microaggression"?
(a) Francis Galton.
(b) Thomas Dixon.
(c) Gunnar Myrdal.
(d) Chester Pierce.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Bill Cosby tell the NAACP "we are not Africans" (106)?

2. Who wrote the manifesto The Spook Who Sat by the Door?

3. Where did the author's family move to in Virginia after leaving New York City?

4. When did the author's father join Floyd H. Flake's ministerial staff?

5. Where did the author enroll in high school in the ninth grade?

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