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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who signed the Immigration Act of 1924 into law?
(a) Chester Pierce.
(b) Isaac La Peyrere.
(c) Robert Park.
(d) Calvin Coolidge.

2. What are the offspring of the conjoined twins of racism and capitalism that threaten to kill them and all of us off, according to the author in Chapter 12?
(a) Sexism, homophobia, and war.
(b) Inequality, war, and climate change.
(c) Poverty and hatred.
(d) Assimilation and segregation.

3. Who directed the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song?
(a) Melvin von Peebles.
(b) Havelock Ellis.
(c) Kenneth Clark.
(d) E. Franklin Frazier.

4. Where did Caridad take her Black and Latinx students each year to embrace their African ancestry, according to the author in Chapter 17?
(a) Nigeria.
(b) Ghana.
(c) Tasmania.
(d) Liberia.

5. Who wrote The Negro a Beast?
(a) Edward Byron Reuter.
(b) Charles Carroll.
(c) Eric Holder.
(d) Carl C. Brigham.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately what percentage of the U.S. population does the author assert Black people comprise?

2. When was the movie Shaft released?

3. Who warned in 1995, "Most inner-city children grow up surrounded by teenagers and adults who are themselves deviant, delinquent or criminal. A new generation of street criminals is upon us--the youngest, biggest and baddest generation any society has ever known" (94)?

4. Wisconsin's strict voter-ID law suppressed approximately how many votes in the 2016 election?

5. Who introduced the term "culture of poverty" (185) in a 1959 ethnography of Mexican families?

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