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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the author describe emerging into racial adolescence when his parents took him to a new school in Chapter 3?
(a) 5.
(b) 13.
(c) 7.
(d) 9.

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

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

4. 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)?
(a) James Cone.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) Eleanor Holmes.

5. What term is defined in Chapter 1 as: "when two or more racial groups are not standing on approximately equal footing" (24)?
(a) Racial inequity.
(b) Bodily racism.
(c) Cultural racism.
(d) Racial paucity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the author assert is "the heartbeat of racism, beating across ideologies, races, and nations" (14) in the Introduction?

3. From where did the author's maternal grandparents move to New York?

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

5. What is the author's current middle name?

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