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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 Soul Liberation performing at the University of Illinois in Chapter 1?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1960.

2. Who wrote in 1978, "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently" (26)?
(a) Harry Blackmun.
(b) James Cone.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

3. What is the author's current middle name?
(a) Xanbi.
(b) Xavier.
(c) Xalen.
(d) Xolani.

4. When did the author's father join Floyd H. Flake's ministerial staff?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1982.

5. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts?
(a) Paucity.
(b) Attribution.
(c) Exoneration.
(d) Leniency.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what college was the author accepted, although he did not attend that school?

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

3. Who said in 1965, "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, 'You are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair" (26)?

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

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

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