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

2. Approximately what percentage of the U.S. population does the author assert Black people comprise?
(a) 16%.
(b) 5%.
(c) 22%
(d) 13%.

3. What was the first African American newspaper?
(a) Liberator News.
(b) Liberty Press.
(c) Freedom's Journal.
(d) The Freeman.

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

5. Where did the author's father attend college?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Howard University.
(d) Baruch College.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "It is very difficult to find in the South today anything that can be traced directly back to Africa" (106) in 1919?

2. Where did the author attend fourth through sixth grades in school?

3. When was Trayvon Martin's killer acquitted of murder?

4. Who said in 2016, "Although black civil rights leaders like to point to a supposedly racist criminal justice system to explain why our prisons house so many black men, it's been obvious for decades that the real culprit is black behavior" (116)?

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

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