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

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

3. What middle name did the author's father choose for the author when he was born?
(a) Henry.
(b) Conrad.
(c) James.
(d) Ellis.

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

5. What does the author assert "is the real Black on Black crime" (13) in the Introduction?
(a) Internalized racism.
(b) Institutionalized racism.
(c) Individualized racism.
(d) Cultural racism.

Short Answer Questions

1. By how many votes did Donald Trump win the state of Wisconsin in the 2016 election?

2. 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)?

3. Who wrote The Fire Next Time?

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

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

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