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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction - Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did the author's mother celebrate her 31st birthday?
(a) June 24, 1982.
(b) June 2, 1998.
(c) March 15, 1995.
(d) September 12, 1980.

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

4. Who said, "'Racist' isn't a descriptive word. It's a pejorative word" (14)?
(a) Richard Spencer.
(b) Carl Linnaeus.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

5. Who wrote The Fire Next Time?
(a) Sam Greenlee.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Richard Wright.
(d) James Baldwin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Souls of Black Folk in 1903?

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

3. According to the author, how much longer do White Americans live over their Black counterparts?

4. Who wrote The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea in 1453?

5. 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)?

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