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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. Who stated, "The blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to whites in the endowments both of body and mind" (27)?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Benjamin Franklin.

8. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts?
(a) Leniency.
(b) Attribution.
(c) Exoneration.
(d) Paucity.

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

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

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

12. When does the author describe emerging into racial adolescence when his parents took him to a new school in Chapter 3?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 13.
(d) 9.

13. 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) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) James Cone.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

14. 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) Isaac La Peyrere.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Gunnar Myrdal.

15. When was The Origin of Species published?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1902.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 2016, what percentage of urban residents in the U.S. reported being victims of violent crimes?

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

3. When does the author describe Soul Liberation performing at the University of Illinois in Chapter 1?

4. According to the author, how much longer do White Americans live over their Black counterparts?

5. 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)?

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