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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of the U.S. prison population in 2016 was comprised of Black and Latinx people?
(a) 56%.
(b) 67%.
(c) 72%.
(d) 23%.

2. By how many votes did Donald Trump win the state of Wisconsin in the 2016 election?
(a) 22,748.
(b) 14,634.
(c) 45,353.
(d) 29,245.

3. When were the Scottsboro Boys falsely accused of raping two Alabama White women?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1944.

4. Where was the school that the author's parents took him to visit, as described in the narrative in Chapter 3?
(a) Long Island.
(b) Harlem.
(c) Staten Island.
(d) Greenwich Village.

5. Who taught the class "The Black Aesthetic" that the author's father attended in college?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) Sam Greenlee.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author in Chapter 1, what percentage of Latinx families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?

3. How much more likely are African Americans to die of cancer than Whites?

4. Who wrote A Study of American Intelligence?

5. Over what university did Samuel Stanhope Smith preside in early America?

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