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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term does the author prefer to replace "microaggressions" (58)?
(a) Systemic racism.
(b) Institutional racism.
(c) Discrimination.
(d) Abuse.

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

3. Who wrote Black Theology and Black Power in 1969?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) James Cone.
(c) Carl Linnaeus.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

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

5. From where did the author's maternal grandparents move to New York?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Arkansas.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Alabama.

6. 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) Robert Park.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Isaac La Peyrere.

7. What is the author's current middle name?
(a) Xolani.
(b) Xanbi.
(c) Xavier.
(d) Xalen.

8. Who said, "It is very difficult to find in the South today anything that can be traced directly back to Africa" (106) in 1919?
(a) Gunnar Myrdal.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Isaac La Peyrere.

9. Where did the author's father attend college?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) Howard University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Baruch College.

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

11. Who coined the term "microaggression"?
(a) Chester Pierce.
(b) Thomas Dixon.
(c) Gunnar Myrdal.
(d) Francis Galton.

12. What was the Latinx immigrant population in the U.S. in 2000?
(a) 4.2 million.
(b) 6.2 million.
(c) 14.1 million.
(d) 10.3 million.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the author's mother celebrate her 31st birthday?

2. Who wrote The Leopard's Spots?

3. Who coined the term "Ebonics"?

4. What percentage of the U.S. prison population in 2016 was comprised of Black and Latinx people?

5. Who wrote Native Son?

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