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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 wrote The Conscience of the Conservative in 1960?
(a) E. Franklin Frazier.
(b) Oscar Lewis.
(c) Barry Goldwater.
(d) Kenneth Clark.

2. 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)?
(a) Eleanor Holmes.
(b) Carl C. Brigham.
(c) Dean Acheson.
(d) Nicholas Wade.

3. Who said in 1980, "We have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals" (30)?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) Audre Lorde.
(d) James Cone.

4. Where did the author's family move to in Virginia after leaving New York City?
(a) Charlottesville.
(b) Manassas.
(c) Richmond.
(d) Roanoke.

5. What was the Latinx immigrant population in the U.S. in 2000?
(a) 6.2 million.
(b) 4.2 million.
(c) 10.3 million.
(d) 14.1 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Where did the author found the Anti-Racist Research and Policy Center in 2017?

3. What percentage of people survive the diagnosis that the author received in 2018?

4. What U.S. senator told his colleagues in 1903, "The poor African has become a fiend, a wild beast, seeking whom he may devour" (87)?

5. What adored civil-rights lawyer wrote in The New York Times in 1985 that the "remedy ... is not as simple as providing necessities and opportunities," but urged the "overthrow of the complicated predatory ghetto subculture" (33)?

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