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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 Latinx immigrant population in the U.S. in 1980?
(a) 14.1 million.
(b) 6.2 million.
(c) 4.2 million.
(d) 10.3 million.

2. According to the author in Chapter 1, what percentage of Latinx families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?
(a) 71%.
(b) 52%.
(c) 41%.
(d) 45%.

3. What does the author assert is "the heartbeat of racism, beating across ideologies, races, and nations" (14) in the Introduction?
(a) Rage.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Denial.
(d) Hatred.

4. What does the author assert "is the real Black on Black crime" (13) in the Introduction?
(a) Institutionalized racism.
(b) Internalized racism.
(c) Cultural racism.
(d) Individualized racism.

5. 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) 7.4%.
(b) 56%.
(c) 43%.
(d) 34%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the approximate uninsured rate of African Americans and Latinx Americans when President Barack Obama left office?

2. When does the author describe Soul Liberation performing at the University of Illinois in Chapter 1?

3. By how many votes did Donald Trump win the state of Wisconsin in the 2016 election?

4. Who wrote in The War On Cops, "The core criminal-justice population is the black underclass" (87)?

5. What are the names of the author's maternal grandparents?

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