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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is defined in Chapter 2 as "One who is expressing the racist idea that a racial group is culturally or behaviorally inferior and is supporting cultural or behavioral enrichment programs to develop that group" (30)?
(a) Arbitrator.
(b) Assimilationist.
(c) Cultural elitist.
(d) Segregationist.

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

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

5. Who wrote The Souls of Black Folk in 1903?
(a) Gomes de Zurara.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Eleanor Holmes.

6. Who wrote Systema Nature in 1735?
(a) Carl Linnaeus.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) Gomes de Zurara.
(d) Eleanor Holmes.

7. 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)?
(a) Isaac La Peyrere.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) John J. DiIulio.
(d) Chester Pierce.

8. What did the author's father study in college?
(a) Accounting.
(b) Education.
(c) Sociology.
(d) African American studies.

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

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

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

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

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

14. Who wrote the 2014 book A Troublesome Inheritance?
(a) Francis Galton.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Nicholas Wade.
(d) Chester Pierce.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author assert is "the heartbeat of racism, beating across ideologies, races, and nations" (14) in the Introduction?

2. Who wrote Native Son?

3. Who said in 1980, "We have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals" (30)?

4. Who was the immigrant student that the author describes teasing about his ethnic heritage in Chapter 5?

5. Who wrote The End of Racism in 1995?

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