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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the author's family move from New York to Virginia?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1997.
(d) 1993.

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

3. Where was the high school located that the author enrolled in for ninth grade?
(a) Harlem, New York.
(b) Flushing, Queens.
(c) Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
(d) Long Island, New York.

4. When was the term "microaggression" coined?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1960.

5. Who wrote An American Dilemma?
(a) Isaac La Peyrere.
(b) Chester Pierce.
(c) Robert Park.
(d) Gunnar Myrdal.

6. Who wrote the manifesto The Spook Who Sat by the Door?
(a) Sam Greenlee.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) Richard Wright.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

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

8. According to the author, how much longer do White Americans live over their Black counterparts?
(a) 2.5 years.
(b) 4.5 years.
(c) 3.5 years.
(d) 1.5 years.

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

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

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

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

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) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) James Cone.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of the author's maternal grandparents?

2. Wisconsin's strict voter-ID law suppressed approximately how many votes in the 2016 election?

3. What was the Latinx immigrant population in the U.S. in 2000?

4. Where did the author's mother attend college?

5. Who warned in 1995, "Most inner-city children grow up surrounded by teenagers and adults who are themselves deviant, delinquent or criminal. A new generation of street criminals is upon us--the youngest, biggest and baddest generation any society has ever known" (94)?

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