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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where did the author's maternal grandparents move to New York?
(a) Alabama.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Georgia.

2. Who was the author's friend at Temple that he learned was gay?
(a) Roger.
(b) Weckea.
(c) Wilson.
(d) Gbenga.

3. Who introduced the term "culture of poverty" (185) in a 1959 ethnography of Mexican families?
(a) Oscar Lewis.
(b) Philomena Essed.
(c) E. Franklin Frazier.
(d) Kenneth Clark.

4. To what college was the author accepted, although he did not attend that school?
(a) Louisiana State University.
(b) Hampton University.
(c) Howard University.
(d) Rutgers University.

5. Where is Ama Mazama from originally?
(a) Jamaica.
(b) Guadeloupe.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Haiti.

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. When does the author describe performing in the final round of the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorial contest in the Introduction?

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)?

5. Who said in 1995, "It isn't racist for Whites to say they don't understand why people put up with gangs on the corner or in the projects or with drugs being sold in the schools or in the open" (113)?

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