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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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) Cultural elitist.
(b) Assimilationist.
(c) Arbitrator.
(d) Segregationist.

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

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

5. 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) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) Eleanor Holmes.

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

7. Who wrote The Leopard's Spots?
(a) Thomas Dixon.
(b) Chester Pierce.
(c) Francis Galton.
(d) Gunnar Myrdal.

8. Who was the immigrant student that the author describes teasing about his ethnic heritage in Chapter 5?
(a) Martin.
(b) Gbenga.
(c) Kwame.
(d) Jack.

9. Where did the author perform in the final round of the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorial contest described in the Introduction?
(a) Texas.
(b) Virginia.
(c) New York.
(d) California.

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

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

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

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

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

15. When does the author describe Soul Liberation performing at the University of Illinois in Chapter 1?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the author enroll in high school in the ninth grade?

2. Who said, "'Racist' isn't a descriptive word. It's a pejorative word" (14)?

3. Who wrote Black Theology and Black Power in 1969?

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

5. What was the Latinx immigrant population in the U.S. in 1980?

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