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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What term does the author prefer to replace "microaggressions" (58)?
(a) Institutional racism.
(b) Discrimination.
(c) Abuse.
(d) Systemic racism.

3. Where was the high school located that the author enrolled in for ninth grade?
(a) Flushing, Queens.
(b) Long Island, New York.
(c) Harlem, New York.
(d) Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

4. Who wrote The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea in 1453?
(a) Gomes de Zurara.
(b) Eleanor Holmes.
(c) Carl Linnaeus.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

5. What was the Latinx immigrant population in the U.S. in 2000?
(a) 10.3 million.
(b) 14.1 million.
(c) 6.2 million.
(d) 4.2 million.

6. What term is defined in Chapter 1 as: "when two or more racial groups are not standing on approximately equal footing" (24)?
(a) Racial inequity.
(b) Cultural racism.
(c) Bodily racism.
(d) Racial paucity.

7. Who wrote The Leopard's Spots?
(a) Francis Galton.
(b) Gunnar Myrdal.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Thomas Dixon.

8. Who said, "It is very difficult to find in the South today anything that can be traced directly back to Africa" (106) in 1919?
(a) Gunnar Myrdal.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Isaac La Peyrere.

9. Wisconsin's strict voter-ID law suppressed approximately how many votes in the 2016 election?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 500,000.
(c) 300,000.
(d) 200,000.

10. Approximately what percentage of the U.S. population does the author assert Black people comprise?
(a) 13%.
(b) 5%.
(c) 22%
(d) 16%.

11. What does the author assert "is the real Black on Black crime" (13) in the Introduction?
(a) Cultural racism.
(b) Individualized racism.
(c) Institutionalized racism.
(d) Internalized racism.

12. What U.S. senator told his colleagues in 1903, "The poor African has become a fiend, a wild beast, seeking whom he may devour" (87)?
(a) Robert Park.
(b) Isaac La Peyrere.
(c) Benjamin Tillman.
(d) Chester Pierce.

13. According to the author, how much longer do White Americans live over their Black counterparts?
(a) 2.5 years.
(b) 4.5 years.
(c) 3.5 years.
(d) 1.5 years.

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

15. According to the author in Chapter 1, what percentage of Latinx families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?
(a) 52%.
(b) 41%.
(c) 71%.
(d) 45%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the author perform in the final round of the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorial contest described in the Introduction?

2. Who wrote Men Before Adam in 1655?

3. What was the nickname of the boy that held a gun on the author on the school bus, as described in Chapter 6?

4. What case before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized Jim Crow segregation in 1896?

5. 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)?

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