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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who warned in 1995, "Most inner-city children grow up surrounded by teenagers and adults who are themselves deviant, delinquent or criminal. A new generation of street criminals is upon us--the youngest, biggest and baddest generation any society has ever known" (94)?
(a) Isaac La Peyrere.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) John J. DiIulio.

2. Where did the author attend fourth through sixth grades in school?
(a) John Brown Middle School.
(b) St. Joseph's Parish Day School.
(c) St. Edward's Parish Day School.
(d) Peake Middle School.

3. When did a bipartisan group of White legislators introduce the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, according to the author in Chapter 6?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1997.
(d) 1995.

4. Where was the high school located that the author enrolled in for ninth grade?
(a) Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
(b) Long Island, New York.
(c) Flushing, Queens.
(d) Harlem, New York.

5. 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)?
(a) Addison Gayle Jr.
(b) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) James Cone.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Alexander Crummell found the first formal Black intellectual society?

2. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts?

3. Who wrote the 2014 book A Troublesome Inheritance?

4. In 2016, what percentage of urban residents in the U.S. reported being victims of violent crimes?

5. On what date did President Bill Clinton state, "Blacks must understand and acknowledge the roots of White fear in America" (86)?

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