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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 1978, "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently" (26)?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Harry Blackmun.
(c) James Cone.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

2. When was the film Hoop Dreams released?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1999.

3. Where was the high school located that the author enrolled in for ninth grade?
(a) Long Island, New York.
(b) Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
(c) Harlem, New York.
(d) Flushing, Queens.

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

5. Who wrote The Mark of Oppression: A Psychosocial Study of the American Negro?
(a) Robert Park.
(b) Abram Kardiner and Lionel Ovesey.
(c) Joy DeGruy and James Baldwin.
(d) James Cone and Eleanor Holmes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stated, "America's Black community ... has turned America's major cities into slums because of laziness, drug use, and sexual promiscuity" (115)?

2. Who stated, "The blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to whites in the endowments both of body and mind" (27)?

3. In 2016, what percentage of urban residents in the U.S. reported being victims of violent crimes?

4. How much money did segregrationist Alabama spend on each Black student in public schools in 1930?

5. Who wrote The Conscience of the Conservative in 1960?

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