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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. According to Department of Education data, how many times more likely were Black students than White students to be suspended from public schools in the 2013-14 academic school year?
(a) 3 times more likely.
(b) 4 times more likely.
(c) 5 times more likely.
(d) 2 times more likely.

5. What case before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized Jim Crow segregation in 1896?
(a) Powell v. Alabama.
(b) Brown v. Board of Education.
(c) Dred Scott v. Sandford.
(d) Plessy v. Ferguson.

6. What middle name did the author's father choose for the author when he was born?
(a) Henry.
(b) James.
(c) Conrad.
(d) Ellis.

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

8. Who taught the class "The Black Aesthetic" that the author's father attended in college?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) Sam Greenlee.
(d) James Baldwin.

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

10. Who said, "'Racist' isn't a descriptive word. It's a pejorative word" (14)?
(a) Richard Spencer.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) Carl Linnaeus.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

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

12. What nickname did the author get named in seventh and eighth grades?
(a) Rat.
(b) Smurf.
(c) Robot.
(d) Bonk.

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

14. The author states in Chapter 6 that in recent years, the University of Chicago Crime Lab worked with the One Summer Chicago Plus jobs program and found what percent "reduction in violent-crime arrests for Black youths who worked eight-week-long part-time summer jobs, compared with a control group of teens who did not" (98)?
(a) 43%.
(b) 56%.
(c) 7.4%.
(d) 34%.

15. What are the names of the author's maternal grandparents?
(a) Roberta and James.
(b) Sheila and Carl.
(c) Mary Ann and Alvin.
(d) Aretha and Jack.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the 2014 book A Troublesome Inheritance?

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

3. When did the author's family move from New York to Virginia?

4. Who coined the term "Ebonics"?

5. What was the approximate uninsured rate of African Americans and Latinx Americans when President Barack Obama left office?

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