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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the author's family move from New York to Virginia?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1997.
(d) 1995.

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

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

4. What case before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized Jim Crow segregation in 1896?
(a) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(b) Dred Scott v. Sandford.
(c) Brown v. Board of Education.
(d) Powell v. Alabama.

5. The author states in Chapter 6 that in recent years, the University of Chicago Crime Lab worked with the One Summer Chicago Plus jobs program and found what percent "reduction in violent-crime arrests for Black youths who worked eight-week-long part-time summer jobs, compared with a control group of teens who did not" (98)?
(a) 56%.
(b) 43%.
(c) 7.4%.
(d) 34%.

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

7. What term is defined in Chapter 1 as: "when two or more racial groups are not standing on approximately equal footing" (24)?
(a) Bodily racism.
(b) Racial paucity.
(c) Cultural racism.
(d) Racial inequity.

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

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

10. By how many votes did Donald Trump win the state of Wisconsin in the 2016 election?
(a) 14,634.
(b) 22,748.
(c) 29,245.
(d) 45,353.

11. In what field did the author's mother take on a career?
(a) International banking.
(b) Home decor.
(c) Healthcare technology.
(d) Architecture.

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

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

14. Who was Charles Darwin's half cousin that powered the transatlantic eugenics movement?
(a) Robert Park.
(b) Francis Galton.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Nicholas Wade.

15. How many students attended the high school that the author attended?
(a) 500.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 1,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Fire Next Time?

2. Who wrote in 1753, "I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites" (41)?

3. What did the author's father study in college?

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

5. What nickname did the author get named in seventh and eighth grades?

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