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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the author's father attend college?
(a) Howard University.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Baruch College.

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

3. What nickname did the author get named in seventh and eighth grades?
(a) Robot.
(b) Rat.
(c) Bonk.
(d) Smurf.

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

5. Who wrote in 1978, "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently" (26)?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Harry Blackmun.
(c) James Cone.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who signed the Immigration Act of 1924 into law?

2. From where did the author's maternal grandparents move to New York?

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

4. Where was the school that the author's parents took him to visit, as described in the narrative in Chapter 3?

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

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