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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who fatally shot Trayvon Martin?
(a) Chester Pierce.
(b) George Zimmerman.
(c) Carl C. Brigham.
(d) Nicholas Wade.

2. Who wrote The Mulatto in the United States in 1918?
(a) Gomes de Zurara.
(b) Charles Carroll.
(c) Carl C. Brigham.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

3. Who wrote An American Dilemma?
(a) Gunnar Myrdal.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Isaac La Peyrere.
(d) Chester Pierce.

4. Where is Ama Mazama from originally?
(a) Jamaica.
(b) Guadeloupe.
(c) Haiti.
(d) South Africa.

5. What does the author assert is "the heartbeat of racism, beating across ideologies, races, and nations" (14) in the Introduction?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Rage.
(c) Denial.
(d) Ignorance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who warned the Truman administration in 1946 that the "existence of discrimination against minority groups in this country has an adverse effect on our relations" with decolonizing Asian, African, and Latin American countries (251)?

2. When was interracial marriage legalized in the United States?

3. Who wrote The End of Racism in 1995?

4. When did Peter Brown write a book that leaned on his human hair collection to classify hair and stated, "The hair of the white man is more perfect than that of the Negro" (141)?

5. When was the film Hoop Dreams released?

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