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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the author's father join Floyd H. Flake's ministerial staff?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1989.

2. Who said in 1965, "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, 'You are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair" (26)?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) James Cone.

3. Who wrote in 1753, "I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites" (41)?
(a) David Hume.
(b) Gomes de Zurara.
(c) Eleanor Holmes.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

4. What case before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized Jim Crow segregation in 1896?
(a) Brown v. Board of Education.
(b) Powell v. Alabama.
(c) Dred Scott v. Sandford.
(d) Plessy v. Ferguson.

5. What was the approximate uninsured rate of African Americans and Latinx Americans when President Barack Obama left office?
(a) 11%.
(b) 16%.
(c) 8%.
(d) 35%.

6. What is the author's current middle name?
(a) Xalen.
(b) Xanbi.
(c) Xavier.
(d) Xolani.

7. Who signed the Immigration Act of 1924 into law?
(a) Robert Park.
(b) Isaac La Peyrere.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Calvin Coolidge.

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

9. How much more likely are African Americans to die of cancer than Whites?
(a) 25%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 35%.

10. What was the nickname of the boy that held a gun on the author on the school bus, as described in Chapter 6?
(a) Smurf.
(b) Robot.
(c) Monster.
(d) Rat.

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

12. When was An American Dilemma published?
(a) 1974.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1959.

13. What percentage of White families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?
(a) 55%.
(b) 41%.
(c) 71%.
(d) 45%.

14. Who said, "'Racist' isn't a descriptive word. It's a pejorative word" (14)?
(a) Carl Linnaeus.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Richard Spencer.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 2015, what percentage of people killed by police were Black, according to the author in Chapter 6?

2. 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)?

3. Who coined the term "Ebonics"?

4. Who wrote The Fire Next Time?

5. What are the names of the author's maternal grandparents?

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