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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote of the mulatto or biracial person that he is "a degenerate, unnatural offspring, doomed by nature to work out its own destruction" (141)?
(a) Edward Byron Reuter.
(b) Charles Carroll.
(c) Josiah Nott.
(d) Eric Holder.

2. When were the Scottsboro Boys falsely accused of raping two Alabama White women?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1931.

3. Who argued in 1773, "All the vices which are charged upon the Negroes in the southern colonies and the West-Indies, such as Idleness, Treachery, Theft, and the like, are the genuine offspring of slavery" (117)?
(a) Jason Riley.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Eric Holder.
(d) Benjamin Rush.

4. Where did the author's family move to in Virginia after leaving New York City?
(a) Roanoke.
(b) Manassas.
(c) Richmond.
(d) Charlottesville.

5. Who said in 1980, "We have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals" (30)?
(a) Audre Lorde.
(b) James Cone.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Plantation Negro as a Freeman?

2. What percentage of the U.S. prison population in 2016 was comprised of Black and Latinx people?

3. When does the author describe performing in the final round of the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorial contest in the Introduction?

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

5. Who was the immigrant student that the author describes teasing about his ethnic heritage in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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