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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Benjamin Tillman.
(b) Isaac La Peyrere.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Robert Park.

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

3. What adored civil-rights lawyer wrote in The New York Times in 1985 that the "remedy ... is not as simple as providing necessities and opportunities," but urged the "overthrow of the complicated predatory ghetto subculture" (33)?
(a) James Cone.
(b) Eleanor Holmes.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

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

5. Who stated, "The blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to whites in the endowments both of body and mind" (27)?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

6. When did Bill Cosby tell the NAACP "we are not Africans" (106)?
(a) 2002.
(b) 2004.
(c) 1996.
(d) 2000.

7. Where did the author's family move to in Virginia after leaving New York City?
(a) Richmond.
(b) Charlottesville.
(c) Roanoke.
(d) Manassas.

8. Where was the school that the author's parents took him to visit, as described in the narrative in Chapter 3?
(a) Staten Island.
(b) Harlem.
(c) Long Island.
(d) Greenwich Village.

9. 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.

10. What are the names of the author's parents?
(a) Rhonda and Sam.
(b) Carol and Larry.
(c) Emily and Jack.
(d) Amy and James.

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

12. 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) Addison Gayle Jr.
(b) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) James Cone.

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

14. According to the author, "The 1882 Chinese Restriction Act was exted to an even broader act, encompassing a larger 'Asiatic Barred Zone'" in what year (76)?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1932.

15. When was the term "microaggression" coined?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1980.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does the author prefer to replace "microaggressions" (58)?

2. Who wrote Men Before Adam in 1655?

3. Who was cursed by Noah in the Bible because his father viewed Noah in his nakedness?

4. Who signed the Immigration Act of 1924 into law?

5. 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)?

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