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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 adored civil-rights lawyer wrote in The New York Times in 1985 that the "remedy ... is not as simple as providing necessities and opportunities," but urged the "overthrow of the complicated predatory ghetto subculture" (33)?
(a) Addison Gayle Jr.
(b) Eleanor Holmes.
(c) James Cone.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

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

3. Who was cursed by Noah in the Bible because his father viewed Noah in his nakedness?
(a) Adam.
(b) Peter.
(c) Canaan.
(d) Moses.

4. Who wrote A Study of American Intelligence?
(a) Carl C. Brigham.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Eric Holder.
(d) Jason Riley.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said in 2016, "Although black civil rights leaders like to point to a supposedly racist criminal justice system to explain why our prisons house so many black men, it's been obvious for decades that the real culprit is black behavior" (116)?

2. Who coined the term "Ebonics"?

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

4. When did the author's father join Floyd H. Flake's ministerial staff?

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)?

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