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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) James Cone.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

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

4. In what field did the author's mother take on a career?
(a) Architecture.
(b) Healthcare technology.
(c) Home decor.
(d) International banking.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author's father study in college?

2. What percentage of the U.S. prison population in 2016 was comprised of Black and Latinx people?

3. When does the author describe Soul Liberation performing at the University of Illinois in Chapter 1?

4. What percentatge of Black families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?

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

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