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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 Native Son?
(a) Richard Wright.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Sam Greenlee.

2. What was the approximate uninsured rate of African Americans and Latinx Americans when President Barack Obama left office?
(a) 35%.
(b) 8%.
(c) 16%.
(d) 11%.

3. Who said in 1980, "We have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals" (30)?
(a) Addison Gayle Jr.
(b) Audre Lorde.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) James Cone.

4. Wisconsin's strict voter-ID law suppressed approximately how many votes in the 2016 election?
(a) 300,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 200,000.

5. Where did the author's family move to in Virginia after leaving New York City?
(a) Manassas.
(b) Charlottesville.
(c) Richmond.
(d) Roanoke.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the author assert "is the real Black on Black crime" (13) in the Introduction?

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

5. Who wrote the manifesto The Spook Who Sat by the Door?

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