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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1993, what percentage of urban residents reported being victims of violent crime in the U.S.?
(a) 43%.
(b) 9%.
(c) 7.4%.
(d) 3%.

2. Where did the author's family move to in Virginia after leaving New York City?
(a) Charlottesville.
(b) Manassas.
(c) Roanoke.
(d) Richmond.

3. Who popularized the term "homosexual" in Studies in the Psychology of Sex in 1897?
(a) Havelock Ellis.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) Carl C. Brigham.
(d) Philomena Essed.

4. Over what university did Samuel Stanhope Smith preside in early America?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Rutgers.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

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) 43%.
(b) 34%.
(c) 7.4%.
(d) 56%.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, how much longer do White Americans live over their Black counterparts?

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

3. Where did the author attend fourth through sixth grades in school?

4. What was Sadiqa diagnosed with not long after she and the author wed?

5. To what college was the author accepted, although he did not attend that school?

(see the answer key)

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