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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the nickname of the boy that held a gun on the author on the school bus, as described in Chapter 6?
(a) Robot.
(b) Monster.
(c) Rat.
(d) Smurf.

2. 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) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) James Cone.
(d) Harry Blackmun.

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

4. Who wrote Native Son?
(a) Richard Wright.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) James Baldwin.
(d) Sam Greenlee.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "'Racist' isn't a descriptive word. It's a pejorative word" (14)?

2. What percentage of Black children born into single-parent homes did Charles Murray claim we had reached in 1994?

3. Where did the author's family move to in Virginia after leaving New York City?

4. When was Alexander Crummell's American Negro Academy founded?

5. Who wrote Sexual Racism: The Emotional Barrier to an Integrated Society?

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