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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was The Bell Curve published?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1944.

2. Who wrote Black Theology and Black Power in 1969?
(a) James Cone.
(b) Carl Linnaeus.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

3. When did the author's mother celebrate her 31st birthday?
(a) June 24, 1982.
(b) September 12, 1980.
(c) March 15, 1995.
(d) June 2, 1998.

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

5. When did the author's family move from New York to Virginia?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1997.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the author's ancestor Eliza born?

2. Who said in 1980, "We have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals" (30)?

3. In what field did the author's mother take on a career?

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

5. To what college was the author accepted, although he did not attend that school?

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