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) January 17, 2000.
(b) September 12, 2003.
(c) March 15, 1995.
(d) June 2, 1998.

2. When did Alexander Crummell found the first formal Black intellectual society?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1897.

3. Who wrote Native Son?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Sam Greenlee.
(c) James Baldwin.
(d) Richard Wright.

4. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Edward Byron Reuter.
(b) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(c) Carl C. Brigham.
(d) Charles Carroll.

5. Who coined the term "Ebonics"?
(a) Robert Park.
(b) Isaac La Peyrere.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Robert Williams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said in 1995, "It isn't racist for Whites to say they don't understand why people put up with gangs on the corner or in the projects or with drugs being sold in the schools or in the open" (113)?

2. According to the author, how much longer do White Americans live over their Black counterparts?

3. What novelist cointed the term "colorism"?

4. When did the FAMU marching band play for Prince at the Super Bowl?

5. What term is defined in Chapter 1 as: "when two or more racial groups are not standing on approximately equal footing" (24)?

(see the answer key)

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