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

2. Who stated, "America's Black community ... has turned America's major cities into slums because of laziness, drug use, and sexual promiscuity" (115)?
(a) Reverend Jamie Johnson.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Gomes de Zurara.
(d) Eric Holder.

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

4. What are the names of the author's parents?
(a) Emily and Jack.
(b) Rhonda and Sam.
(c) Amy and James.
(d) Carol and Larry.

5. Who wrote The Souls of Black Folk in 1903?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Gomes de Zurara.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) Eleanor Holmes.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Peter Brown write a book that leaned on his human hair collection to classify hair and stated, "The hair of the white man is more perfect than that of the Negro" (141)?

2. Where did the author attend fourth through sixth grades in school?

3. Who wrote The Fire Next Time?

4. Who wrote the manifesto The Spook Who Sat by the Door?

5. When was the term "colorism" coined?

(see the answer key)

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