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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education take place?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1948.

2. Who wrote in The War On Cops, "The core criminal-justice population is the black underclass" (87)?
(a) Robert Park.
(b) Isaac La Peyrere.
(c) Heather Mac Donald.
(d) Chester Pierce.

3. The author states in Chapter 6 that in recent years, the University of Chicago Crime Lab worked with the One Summer Chicago Plus jobs program and found what percent "reduction in violent-crime arrests for Black youths who worked eight-week-long part-time summer jobs, compared with a control group of teens who did not" (98)?
(a) 43%.
(b) 56%.
(c) 7.4%.
(d) 34%.

4. Over what university did Samuel Stanhope Smith preside in early America?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Yale.
(d) Rutgers.

5. Who is the founder of Kwanzaa?
(a) Kenneth Clark.
(b) Maulana Karenga.
(c) Oscar Lewis.
(d) Havelock Ellis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "'Racist' isn't a descriptive word. It's a pejorative word" (14)?

2. Where is Ama Mazama from originally?

3. What adored civil-rights lawyer wrote in The New York Times in 1985 that the "remedy ... is not as simple as providing necessities and opportunities," but urged the "overthrow of the complicated predatory ghetto subculture" (33)?

4. What novelist cointed the term "colorism"?

5. Who wrote The Souls of Black Folk in 1903?

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