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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 2015, what percentage of people killed by police were Black, according to the author in Chapter 6?
(a) 63%.
(b) 26%.
(c) 3%.
(d) 10%.

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

3. When was the film Hoop Dreams released?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1999.

4. 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)?
(a) Arbitrator.
(b) Assimilationist.
(c) Cultural elitist.
(d) Segregationist.

5. When does the author describe emerging into racial adolescence when his parents took him to a new school in Chapter 3?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 13.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Where was the high school located that the author enrolled in for ninth grade?

5. What are the names of the author's maternal grandparents?

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