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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who taught the class "The Black Aesthetic" that the author's father attended in college?
(a) James Baldwin.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Sam Greenlee.

2. Who wrote Native Son?
(a) Richard Wright.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Sam Greenlee.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

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

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

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

6. According to Department of Education data, how many times more likely were Black students than White students to be suspended from public schools in the 2013-14 academic school year?
(a) 2 times more likely.
(b) 5 times more likely.
(c) 3 times more likely.
(d) 4 times more likely.

7. In 2016, what percentage of urban residents in the U.S. reported being victims of violent crimes?
(a) 7.4%.
(b) 3%.
(c) 43%.
(d) 9%.

8. What percentatge of Black families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?
(a) 41%.
(b) 52%.
(c) 45%.
(d) 71%.

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

10. Where did the author enroll in high school in the ninth grade?
(a) John Browne High School.
(b) George Roberts High School.
(c) Robert Kennedy High School.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr. High School.

11. When was the film Hoop Dreams released?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1997.

12. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts?
(a) Exoneration.
(b) Leniency.
(c) Attribution.
(d) Paucity.

13. Who was cursed by Noah in the Bible because his father viewed Noah in his nakedness?
(a) Peter.
(b) Canaan.
(c) Moses.
(d) Adam.

14. Where did the author's father attend college?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Baruch College.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Howard University.

15. What is defined in Chapter 2 as "One who is expressing the racist idea that a permanently inferior racial group can never be developed and is supporting policy that segregates away that racial group" (31)?
(a) Assimilationist.
(b) Arbitrator.
(c) Cultural elitist.
(d) Segregationist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who warned in 1995, "Most inner-city children grow up surrounded by teenagers and adults who are themselves deviant, delinquent or criminal. A new generation of street criminals is upon us--the youngest, biggest and baddest generation any society has ever known" (94)?

2. Approximately what percentage of the U.S. population does the author assert Black people comprise?

3. Who wrote The Souls of Black Folk in 1903?

4. By how many votes did Donald Trump win the state of Wisconsin in the 2016 election?

5. From where did the author's maternal grandparents move to New York?

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