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

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

3. Who taught the class "The Black Aesthetic" that the author's father attended in college?
(a) James Baldwin.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Sam Greenlee.

4. Wisconsin's strict voter-ID law suppressed approximately how many votes in the 2016 election?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 300,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 200,000.

5. When did the author's family move from New York to Virginia?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1999.

Short Answer 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)?

2. When did Harriet Tubman lead the Combahee River slave raid?

3. 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)?

4. What novelist cointed the term "colorism"?

5. What Washington, D.C. prosecutor asked at an MLK birthday celebration in 1995, "Did Martin Luther King successfully fight the likes of Bull Connor so that we could ultimately lose the struggle for civil rights to misguided or malicious members of our own race" (113)?

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