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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who said in 1965, "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, 'You are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair" (26)?
(a) Addison Gayle Jr.
(b) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) James Cone.

3. What does the author assert "is the real Black on Black crime" (13) in the Introduction?
(a) Institutionalized racism.
(b) Cultural racism.
(c) Individualized racism.
(d) Internalized racism.

4. 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) Cultural elitist.
(c) Assimilationist.
(d) Segregationist.

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

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

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

8. What does the author assert is "the heartbeat of racism, beating across ideologies, races, and nations" (14) in the Introduction?
(a) Rage.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Denial.

9. Who wrote in The War On Cops, "The core criminal-justice population is the black underclass" (87)?
(a) Chester Pierce.
(b) Isaac La Peyrere.
(c) Robert Park.
(d) Heather Mac Donald.

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

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

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

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

14. Where did the author attend fourth through sixth grades in school?
(a) St. Joseph's Parish Day School.
(b) St. Edward's Parish Day School.
(c) Peake Middle School.
(d) John Brown Middle School.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wrote the manifesto The Spook Who Sat by the Door?

3. From where did the author's maternal grandparents move to New York?

4. 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)?

5. To what college was the author accepted, although he did not attend that school?

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