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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 of the mulatto or biracial person that he is "a degenerate, unnatural offspring, doomed by nature to work out its own destruction" (141)?
(a) Josiah Nott.
(b) Eric Holder.
(c) Edward Byron Reuter.
(d) Charles Carroll.

2. What U.S. senator told his colleagues in 1903, "The poor African has become a fiend, a wild beast, seeking whom he may devour" (87)?
(a) Isaac La Peyrere.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Benjamin Tillman.

3. Who wrote The Plantation Negro as a Freeman?
(a) Eric Holder.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Alexander Bruce.
(d) Jason Riley.

4. What is defined in Chapter 2 as "One who is expressing the racist idea that a permanently inferior racial group can never be developed and is supporting policy that segregates away that racial group" (31)?
(a) Assimilationist.
(b) Cultural elitist.
(c) Segregationist.
(d) Arbitrator.

5. What is the average U.S. life expectancy of a transgender woman of color, according to the author in Chapter 15?
(a) 45.
(b) 35.
(c) 65.
(d) 55.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the manifesto The Spook Who Sat by the Door?

2. Who wrote Black Theology and Black Power in 1969?

3. Where did the author's father attend college?

4. When was The Plantation Negro as a Freeman published?

5. What novelist cointed the term "colorism"?

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