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

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

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

4. What percentatge of Black families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?
(a) 45%.
(b) 41%.
(c) 71%.
(d) 52%.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Fire Next Time?

2. From where did the author's maternal grandparents move to New York?

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)?

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

5. What percentage of White families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?

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