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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 An American Dilemma published?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1974.

2. 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)?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) James Cone.
(c) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

3. When was the term "microaggression" coined?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1970.

4. Where did the author's father attend college?
(a) Baruch College.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Howard University.

5. 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)?
(a) 56%.
(b) 7.4%.
(c) 34%.
(d) 43%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does the author prefer to replace "microaggressions" (58)?

2. What did the author's father study in college?

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

5. What Heritage Foundation president wrote in 2018, "Being black and the daughter of a former welfare recipient, I know firsthand the unintended harm welfare has caused" (187)?

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