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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did the author's father attend college?
(a) Howard University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Baruch College.
(d) Rutgers University.

3. When did Harriet Tubman lead the Combahee River slave raid?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1899.

4. Who coined the term "microaggression"?
(a) Francis Galton.
(b) Gunnar Myrdal.
(c) Thomas Dixon.
(d) Chester Pierce.

5. When did a bipartisan group of White legislators introduce the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, according to the author in Chapter 6?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1989.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Plantation Negro as a Freeman?

2. When was Alexander Crummell's American Negro Academy founded?

3. When did Peter Brown write a book that leaned on his human hair collection to classify hair and stated, "The hair of the white man is more perfect than that of the Negro" (141)?

4. Approximately what percentage of the U.S. population does the author assert Black people comprise?

5. Who wrote The Mark of Oppression: A Psychosocial Study of the American Negro?

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