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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 - 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Color Purple?
(a) Havelock Ellis.
(b) Oscar Lewis.
(c) Alice Walker.
(d) Kenneth Clark.

2. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts?
(a) Exoneration.
(b) Attribution.
(c) Leniency.
(d) Paucity.

3. What does the author assert is "the heartbeat of racism, beating across ideologies, races, and nations" (14) in the Introduction?
(a) Rage.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Denial.
(d) Ignorance.

4. What are the offspring of the conjoined twins of racism and capitalism that threaten to kill them and all of us off, according to the author in Chapter 12?
(a) Poverty and hatred.
(b) Assimilation and segregation.
(c) Sexism, homophobia, and war.
(d) Inequality, war, and climate change.

5. What percentage of Black children born into single-parent homes did Charles Murray claim we had reached in 1994?
(a) 23%.
(b) 68%.
(c) 82%.
(d) 76%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author's father study in college?

2. When was the film Hoop Dreams released?

3. When was the National Black Feminist Organization formed?

4. When did Alexander Crummell found the first formal Black intellectual society?

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

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