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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 - 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What nickname did the author get named in seventh and eighth grades?
(a) Smurf.
(b) Bonk.
(c) Robot.
(d) Rat.

2. When did Harriet Tubman lead the Combahee River slave raid?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1863.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1869.

3. What are the offspring of the conjoined twins of racism and capitalism that threaten to kill them and all of us off, according to the author in Chapter 12?
(a) Assimilation and segregation.
(b) Poverty and hatred.
(c) Sexism, homophobia, and war.
(d) Inequality, war, and climate change.

4. To what college was the author accepted, although he did not attend that school?
(a) Louisiana State University.
(b) Hampton University.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Howard University.

5. From where did the author's maternal grandparents move to New York?
(a) Alabama.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who taught the class "The Black Aesthetic" that the author's father attended in college?

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

3. Where is Ama Mazama from originally?

4. Who stated, "The blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to whites in the endowments both of body and mind" (27)?

5. Who wrote in 1753, "I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites" (41)?

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