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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 term "colorism" coined?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1983.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1969.

2. Who wrote the 2014 book A Troublesome Inheritance?
(a) Nicholas Wade.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Francis Galton.

3. Who taught the class "The Black Aesthetic" that the author's father attended in college?
(a) Sam Greenlee.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) James Baldwin.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

4. Who argued in 1773, "All the vices which are charged upon the Negroes in the southern colonies and the West-Indies, such as Idleness, Treachery, Theft, and the like, are the genuine offspring of slavery" (117)?
(a) Jason Riley.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Eric Holder.
(d) Benjamin Rush.

5. When was the Black Women's Alliance formed?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1970.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

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

3. What is defined in Chapter 2 as "One who is expressing the racist idea that a racial group is culturally or behaviorally inferior and is supporting cultural or behavioral enrichment programs to develop that group" (30)?

4. To what Philadelphia neighborhood did the author move in August of 2005?

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

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