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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote in 1753, "I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites" (41)?
(a) Addison Gayle Jr.
(b) Gomes de Zurara.
(c) David Hume.
(d) Eleanor Holmes.

4. The author asserts in Chapter 8 that the use of what "to measure aptitude and intelligent is one of the most effective racist policies ever devised to degrade Black minds and legally exclude Black bodies" (124)?
(a) Standardized tests.
(b) Integrated schools.
(c) Segregated schools.
(d) Common core standards.

5. How many students attended the high school that the author attended?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 500.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was The Plantation Negro as a Freeman published?

2. Who warned in 1995, "Most inner-city children grow up surrounded by teenagers and adults who are themselves deviant, delinquent or criminal. A new generation of street criminals is upon us--the youngest, biggest and baddest generation any society has ever known" (94)?

3. What are the names of the author's parents?

4. Who wrote Black Theology and Black Power in 1969?

5. Who said, "It is very difficult to find in the South today anything that can be traced directly back to Africa" (106) in 1919?

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