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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Roots?
(a) Thomas Dixon.
(b) Chester Pierce.
(c) Alex Haley.
(d) Francis Galton.

2. What nickname did the author get named in seventh and eighth grades?
(a) Rat.
(b) Bonk.
(c) Smurf.
(d) Robot.

3. Who wrote The End of Racism in 1995?
(a) Dinesh D'Souza.
(b) Francis Galton.
(c) Thomas Dixon.
(d) Chester Pierce.

4. When did the author's mother celebrate her 31st birthday?
(a) March 15, 1995.
(b) September 12, 1980.
(c) June 24, 1982.
(d) June 2, 1998.

5. What percentage of the U.S. prison population in 2016 was comprised of Black and Latinx people?
(a) 56%.
(b) 67%.
(c) 72%.
(d) 23%.

6. Who coined the term "Ebonics"?
(a) Robert Williams.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Isaac La Peyrere.

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

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

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

10. 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)?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Harry Blackmun.
(c) James Cone.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

11. What middle name did the author's father choose for the author when he was born?
(a) Henry.
(b) Ellis.
(c) James.
(d) Conrad.

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

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

14. On what date did President Bill Clinton state, "Blacks must understand and acknowledge the roots of White fear in America" (86)?
(a) September 5, 2018.
(b) July 30, 1992.
(c) June 3, 1997.
(d) October 16, 1995.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Wisconsin's strict voter-ID law suppressed approximately how many votes in the 2016 election?

3. Who was Charles Darwin's half cousin that powered the transatlantic eugenics movement?

4. Who wrote Men Before Adam in 1655?

5. In what field did the author's mother take on a career?

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