2. Who was the immigrant student that the author describes teasing about his ethnic heritage in Chapter 5?
(a) Kwame.
(b) Martin.
(c) Jack.
(d) Gbenga.

3. 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)?
(a) Oscar Lewis.
(b) Kay Coles James.
(c) Kenneth Clark.
(d) E. Franklin Frazier.

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

5. Who stated, "America's Black community ... has turned America's major cities into slums because of laziness, drug use, and sexual promiscuity" (115)?
(a) Reverend Jamie Johnson.
(b) Eric Holder.
(c) Edward Byron Reuter.
(d) Gomes de Zurara.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. Who wrote Native Son?

3. When did the author's father join Floyd H. Flake's ministerial staff?

4. When did the author's family move from New York to Virginia?

5. Who was Charles Darwin's half cousin that powered the transatlantic eugenics movement?

(see the answer key)

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