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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 was the high school located that the author enrolled in for ninth grade?
(a) Flushing, Queens.
(b) Long Island, New York.
(c) Harlem, New York.
(d) Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

2. When was the term "microaggression" coined?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1970.

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

4. In the presidential election in 2000, how many ballots were invalidated by Florida election officials?
(a) 179,855.
(b) 134,253.
(c) 234,522.
(d) 99,353.

5. Where did the author perform in the final round of the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorial contest described in the Introduction?
(a) New York.
(b) Virginia.
(c) California.
(d) Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. 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)?

3. Who said in 1965, "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, 'You are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair" (26)?

4. What is defined in Chapter 2 as "One who is expressing the racist idea that a racial group is culturally or behaviorally inferior and is supporting cultural or behavioral enrichment programs to develop that group" (30)?

5. Where did the author's father attend college?

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