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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 2015, what percentage of people killed by police were Black, according to the author in Chapter 6?
(a) 3%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 63%.
(d) 26%.

2. When was Trayvon Martin's killer acquitted of murder?
(a) February 26, 2012.
(b) September 1, 2006.
(c) December 4, 2006.
(d) July 13, 2013.

3. When was the founding meeting of the Socialist Party of America?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1856.

4. When did Alexander Crummell found the first formal Black intellectual society?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1897.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What lecturer does the author describe in Chapter 17 that described racism as a disease?

3. When did William Lloyd Garrison found The Liberator?

4. Who wrote in 1978, "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently" (26)?

5. Who directed the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song?

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