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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 - 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The author states in Chapter 6 that in recent years, the University of Chicago Crime Lab worked with the One Summer Chicago Plus jobs program and found what percent "reduction in violent-crime arrests for Black youths who worked eight-week-long part-time summer jobs, compared with a control group of teens who did not" (98)?
(a) 56%.
(b) 34%.
(c) 43%.
(d) 7.4%.

3. From where did the author's maternal grandparents move to New York?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Georgia.
(c) South Carolina.
(d) Alabama.

4. Where did the author perform in the final round of the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorial contest described in the Introduction?
(a) Texas.
(b) New York.
(c) California.
(d) Virginia.

5. According to the author, how much longer do White Americans live over their Black counterparts?
(a) 3.5 years.
(b) 2.5 years.
(c) 4.5 years.
(d) 1.5 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the film Hoop Dreams released?

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

3. Who wrote The Souls of Black Folk in 1903?

4. Who wrote Systema Nature in 1735?

5. Who wrote Black Theology and Black Power in 1969?

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