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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 Dark Ghetto published?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1962.

2. When did the author's family move from New York to Virginia?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1999.

3. Who warned in 1995, "Most inner-city children grow up surrounded by teenagers and adults who are themselves deviant, delinquent or criminal. A new generation of street criminals is upon us--the youngest, biggest and baddest generation any society has ever known" (94)?
(a) John J. DiIulio.
(b) Chester Pierce.
(c) Robert Park.
(d) Isaac La Peyrere.

4. 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) Charles Carroll.
(b) Eric Holder.
(c) Josiah Nott.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

5. When did Bill Cosby tell the NAACP "we are not Africans" (106)?
(a) 2004.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2002.
(d) 1996.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the approximate uninsured rate of African Americans and Latinx Americans when President Barack Obama left office?

2. When was The Origin of Species published?

3. 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)?

4. What was the Latinx immigrant population in the U.S. in 1980?

5. When did the FAMU marching band play for Prince at the Super Bowl?

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