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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the names of the author's parents?
(a) Emily and Jack.
(b) Carol and Larry.
(c) Rhonda and Sam.
(d) Amy and James.

2. Who taught the class "The Black Aesthetic" that the author's father attended in college?
(a) James Baldwin.
(b) Sam Greenlee.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

3. What percentatge of Black families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?
(a) 71%.
(b) 41%.
(c) 52%.
(d) 45%.

4. By how many votes did Donald Trump win the state of Wisconsin in the 2016 election?
(a) 29,245.
(b) 14,634.
(c) 45,353.
(d) 22,748.

5. What case before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized Jim Crow segregation in 1896?
(a) Brown v. Board of Education.
(b) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(c) Dred Scott v. Sandford.
(d) Powell v. Alabama.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote The Fire Next Time?

3. Who wrote in 1753, "I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites" (41)?

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

5. Who stated, "The blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to whites in the endowments both of body and mind" (27)?

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