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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the author describe performing in the final round of the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorial contest in the Introduction?
(a) September 12, 2003.
(b) March 15, 1995.
(c) January 17, 2000.
(d) June 2, 1998.

2. What is defined in Chapter 2 as "One who is expressing the racist idea that a permanently inferior racial group can never be developed and is supporting policy that segregates away that racial group" (31)?
(a) Arbitrator.
(b) Assimilationist.
(c) Segregationist.
(d) Cultural elitist.

3. What was the nickname of the boy that held a gun on the author on the school bus, as described in Chapter 6?
(a) Monster.
(b) Smurf.
(c) Robot.
(d) Rat.

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

5. To what college was the author accepted, although he did not attend that school?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) Louisiana State University.
(c) Howard University.
(d) Hampton University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the author's family move to in Virginia after leaving New York City?

2. What does the author assert "is the real Black on Black crime" (13) in the Introduction?

3. Who was the immigrant student that the author describes teasing about his ethnic heritage in Chapter 5?

4. Wisconsin's strict voter-ID law suppressed approximately how many votes in the 2016 election?

5. Where did the author's mother attend college?

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