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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 percentage of the U.S. prison population in 2016 was comprised of Black and Latinx people?
(a) 56%.
(b) 67%.
(c) 72%.
(d) 23%.

2. Who wrote The Leopard's Spots?
(a) Gunnar Myrdal.
(b) Thomas Dixon.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Francis Galton.

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

4. What are the names of the author's maternal grandparents?
(a) Aretha and Jack.
(b) Sheila and Carl.
(c) Roberta and James.
(d) Mary Ann and Alvin.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the author's roommate Clarence from?

2. When was The Negro a Beast published?

3. In 1930, how much money did segregationist Alabama spend for each White student in public schools?

4. What nickname did the author get named in seventh and eighth grades?

5. What percentage of White families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?

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