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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 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)?
(a) Addison Gayle Jr.
(b) Audre Lorde.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) James Cone.

2. When does the author describe Soul Liberation performing at the University of Illinois in Chapter 1?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1965.

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

4. Who said, "'Racist' isn't a descriptive word. It's a pejorative word" (14)?
(a) Richard Spencer.
(b) Carl Linnaeus.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

5. What term does the author prefer to replace "microaggressions" (58)?
(a) Abuse.
(b) Systemic racism.
(c) Institutional racism.
(d) Discrimination.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many students attended the high school that the author attended?

3. What is the average U.S. life expectancy of a transgender woman of color, according to the author in Chapter 15?

4. Where did the author's mother attend college?

5. Who wrote The Negro a Beast?

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