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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) James Cone.
(c) Eleanor Holmes.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

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

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

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

6. Who wrote The Fire Next Time?
(a) Sam Greenlee.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Richard Wright.
(d) James Baldwin.

7. Who coined the term "Ebonics"?
(a) Robert Park.
(b) Robert Williams.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Isaac La Peyrere.

8. Who wrote Men Before Adam in 1655?
(a) Isaac La Peyrere.
(b) Francis Galton.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Thomas Dixon.

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

10. 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) Benjamin Franklin.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

11. What percentatge of Black families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?
(a) 71%.
(b) 52%.
(c) 45%.
(d) 41%.

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

13. What is defined in Chapter 2 as "One who is expressing the racist idea that a permanently inferior racial group can never be developed and is supporting policy that segregates away that racial group" (31)?
(a) Arbitrator.
(b) Cultural elitist.
(c) Assimilationist.
(d) Segregationist.

14. Who wrote The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea in 1453?
(a) Eleanor Holmes.
(b) Carl Linnaeus.
(c) Gomes de Zurara.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who coined the term "microaggression"?

2. In 1993, what percentage of urban residents reported being victims of violent crime in the U.S.?

3. When did Bill Cosby tell the NAACP "we are not Africans" (106)?

4. Who wrote Native Son?

5. How much more likely are African Americans to die of cancer than Whites?

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