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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 percentage of White families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?
(a) 71%.
(b) 55%.
(c) 45%.
(d) 41%.

2. Who wrote The Souls of Black Folk in 1903?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) Gomes de Zurara.
(d) Eleanor Holmes.

3. Who wrote The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea in 1453?
(a) Eleanor Holmes.
(b) Gomes de Zurara.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) Carl Linnaeus.

4. When did the author's mother celebrate her 31st birthday?
(a) September 12, 1980.
(b) June 24, 1982.
(c) March 15, 1995.
(d) June 2, 1998.

5. 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) James Cone.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Eleanor Holmes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Men Before Adam in 1655?

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

3. Where did the author's father attend college?

4. What U.S. senator told his colleagues in 1903, "The poor African has become a fiend, a wild beast, seeking whom he may devour" (87)?

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

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