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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Cultural elitist.
(b) Arbitrator.
(c) Segregationist.
(d) Assimilationist.

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

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

5. Who was cursed by Noah in the Bible because his father viewed Noah in his nakedness?
(a) Adam.
(b) Moses.
(c) Canaan.
(d) Peter.

6. Who wrote Roots?
(a) Thomas Dixon.
(b) Francis Galton.
(c) Alex Haley.
(d) Chester Pierce.

7. Wisconsin's strict voter-ID law suppressed approximately how many votes in the 2016 election?
(a) 500,000.
(b) 300,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 10,000.

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

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

10. Who signed the Immigration Act of 1924 into law?
(a) Isaac La Peyrere.
(b) Calvin Coolidge.
(c) Robert Park.
(d) Chester Pierce.

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

12. When does the author describe Soul Liberation performing at the University of Illinois in Chapter 1?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1970.

13. When did the author's father join Floyd H. Flake's ministerial staff?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1995.

14. What percentage of White families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?
(a) 71%.
(b) 41%.
(c) 55%.
(d) 45%.

15. According to the author, "The 1882 Chinese Restriction Act was exted to an even broader act, encompassing a larger 'Asiatic Barred Zone'" in what year (76)?
(a) 1925.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1902.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the term "microaggression" coined?

2. What does the author assert "is the real Black on Black crime" (13) in the Introduction?

3. Who wrote Black Theology and Black Power in 1969?

4. What was the nickname of the boy that held a gun on the author on the school bus, as described in Chapter 6?

5. Who wrote in The War On Cops, "The core criminal-justice population is the black underclass" (87)?

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