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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 - 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What lecturer does the author describe in Chapter 17 that described racism as a disease?
(a) Nicholas Wade.
(b) Boyce Watkins.
(c) Eleanor Holmes.
(d) Carl C. Brigham.

2. Who wrote the 2014 book A Troublesome Inheritance?
(a) Chester Pierce.
(b) Francis Galton.
(c) Nicholas Wade.
(d) Robert Park.

3. What nickname did the author get named in seventh and eighth grades?
(a) Smurf.
(b) Robot.
(c) Rat.
(d) Bonk.

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

5. When did William Lloyd Garrison found The Liberator?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1831.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1845.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who argued in 1773, "All the vices which are charged upon the Negroes in the southern colonies and the West-Indies, such as Idleness, Treachery, Theft, and the like, are the genuine offspring of slavery" (117)?

2. Who wrote Roots?

3. Who warned the Truman administration in 1946 that the "existence of discrimination against minority groups in this country has an adverse effect on our relations" with decolonizing Asian, African, and Latin American countries (251)?

4. Who wrote Native Son?

5. What percentatge of Black families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?

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