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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What novelist cointed the term "colorism"?
(a) Alice Walker.
(b) Eric Holder.
(c) Carl C. Brigham.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

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

4. Who was cursed by Noah in the Bible because his father viewed Noah in his nakedness?
(a) Peter.
(b) Adam.
(c) Moses.
(d) Canaan.

5. According to the author, "The 1882 Chinese Restriction Act was exted to an even broader act, encompassing a larger 'Asiatic Barred Zone'" in what year (76)?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1925.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the founding meeting of the Socialist Party of America?

2. The author states in Chapter 6 that in recent years, the University of Chicago Crime Lab worked with the One Summer Chicago Plus jobs program and found what percent "reduction in violent-crime arrests for Black youths who worked eight-week-long part-time summer jobs, compared with a control group of teens who did not" (98)?

3. Who said in 1965, "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, 'You are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair" (26)?

4. Who wrote The Negro a Beast?

5. On what date did President Bill Clinton state, "Blacks must understand and acknowledge the roots of White fear in America" (86)?

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