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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the manifesto The Spook Who Sat by the Door?
(a) Sam Greenlee.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) Richard Wright.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

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

3. What is the author's current middle name?
(a) Xanbi.
(b) Xavier.
(c) Xolani.
(d) Xalen.

4. What percentage of the U.S. prison population in 2016 was comprised of Black and Latinx people?
(a) 72%.
(b) 67%.
(c) 23%.
(d) 56%.

5. How much more likely are African Americans to die of cancer than Whites?
(a) 25%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 35%.
(d) 10%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What case before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized Jim Crow segregation in 1896?

2. What was the approximate uninsured rate of African Americans and Latinx Americans when President Barack Obama left office?

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

4. Where did the author's mother attend college?

5. Who taught the class "The Black Aesthetic" that the author's father attended in college?

(see the answer key)

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