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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 introduced the term "culture of poverty" (185) in a 1959 ethnography of Mexican families?
(a) Philomena Essed.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) Oscar Lewis.
(d) E. Franklin Frazier.

2. What nickname did the author get named in seventh and eighth grades?
(a) Smurf.
(b) Robot.
(c) Rat.
(d) Bonk.

3. When did the FAMU marching band play for Prince at the Super Bowl?
(a) 2000.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2003.
(d) 2007.

4. According to the author in Chapter 1, what percentage of Latinx families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?
(a) 71%.
(b) 45%.
(c) 41%.
(d) 52%.

5. When does the author describe emerging into racial adolescence when his parents took him to a new school in Chapter 3?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 13.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term is defined in Chapter 1 as: "when two or more racial groups are not standing on approximately equal footing" (24)?

2. In 1993, what percentage of urban residents reported being victims of violent crime in the U.S.?

3. When was the term "microaggression" coined?

4. Who wrote The Plantation Negro as a Freeman?

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)?

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