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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 Secretary of State in 1963 warned Congress in considering the Civil Rights Act that "in waging this world struggle we are seriously handicapped by racial or religious discrimination" (251)?
(a) Eleanor Holmes.
(b) Carl C. Brigham.
(c) Dean Rusk.
(d) Nicholas Wade.

2. When was The Plantation Negro as a Freeman published?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1923.

3. 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) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) James Cone.
(c) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

4. In what field did the author's mother take on a career?
(a) Healthcare technology.
(b) Home decor.
(c) Architecture.
(d) International banking.

5. 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)?
(a) Jason Riley.
(b) Benjamin Rush.
(c) Eric Holder.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Over what university did Samuel Stanhope Smith preside in early America?

2. Who wrote An American Dilemma?

3. What lecturer does the author describe in Chapter 17 that described racism as a disease?

4. According to the author in Chapter 1, what percentage of Latinx families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?

5. Who signed the Immigration Act of 1924 into law?

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