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

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

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

4. Who wrote The Souls of Black Folk in 1903?
(a) Gomes de Zurara.
(b) Eleanor Holmes.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

5. What did the author's father study in college?
(a) Accounting.
(b) African American studies.
(c) Education.
(d) Sociology.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the author's father join Floyd H. Flake's ministerial staff?

2. Where was the school that the author's parents took him to visit, as described in the narrative in Chapter 3?

3. What middle name did the author's father choose for the author when he was born?

4. Where did the author's father 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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