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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the author's roommate Clarence from?
(a) Berkeley, CA.
(b) Birmingham, AL.
(c) Houston, TX.
(d) Little Rock, AR.

2. When was Beyond the Melting Point published?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1963.

3. Who wrote of the mulatto or biracial person that he is "a degenerate, unnatural offspring, doomed by nature to work out its own destruction" (141)?
(a) Eric Holder.
(b) Charles Carroll.
(c) Josiah Nott.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

4. What seminal work did Molefi Kete Asante publish in 1980?
(a) Rush.
(b) Afrocentricity.
(c) Beyond the Melting Point.
(d) The Color Purple.

5. Over what university did Samuel Stanhope Smith preside in early America?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Rutgers.
(c) Yale.
(d) Princeton.

6. How much money did segregrationist Alabama spend on each Black student in public schools in 1930?
(a) $11.
(b) $7.
(c) $9.
(d) $15.

7. Who wrote the 2005 book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome?
(a) Edward Byron Reuter.
(b) Joy DeGruy.
(c) Jason Riley.
(d) Eric Holder.

8. Who was the author's friend at Temple that he learned was gay?
(a) Weckea.
(b) Gbenga.
(c) Roger.
(d) Wilson.

9. Who said in 2016, "Although black civil rights leaders like to point to a supposedly racist criminal justice system to explain why our prisons house so many black men, it's been obvious for decades that the real culprit is black behavior" (116)?
(a) Jason Riley.
(b) Eric Holder.
(c) Edward Byron Reuter.
(d) Reverend Jamie Johnson.

10. Where did Ama Mazama earn her doctorate in linguistics?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Yale.
(c) Oxford.
(d) La Sorbonne.

11. Who wrote The Plantation Negro as a Freeman?
(a) Alexander Bruce.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Eric Holder.
(d) Jason Riley.

12. What Heritage Foundation president wrote in 2018, "Being black and the daughter of a former welfare recipient, I know firsthand the unintended harm welfare has caused" (187)?
(a) Oscar Lewis.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) E. Franklin Frazier.
(d) Kay Coles James.

13. Who argued in 1773, "All the vices which are charged upon the Negroes in the southern colonies and the West-Indies, such as Idleness, Treachery, Theft, and the like, are the genuine offspring of slavery" (117)?
(a) Edward Byron Reuter.
(b) Benjamin Rush.
(c) Jason Riley.
(d) Eric Holder.

14. Who introduced the term "culture of poverty" (185) in a 1959 ethnography of Mexican families?
(a) Philomena Essed.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) Oscar Lewis.
(d) E. Franklin Frazier.

15. Who wrote The Mark of Oppression: A Psychosocial Study of the American Negro?
(a) Abram Kardiner and Lionel Ovesey.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Joy DeGruy and James Baldwin.
(d) James Cone and Eleanor Holmes.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the FAMU marching band play for Prince at the Super Bowl?

2. Who said in 1995, "It isn't racist for Whites to say they don't understand why people put up with gangs on the corner or in the projects or with drugs being sold in the schools or in the open" (113)?

3. To what Philadelphia neighborhood did the author move in August of 2005?

4. When was Dark Ghetto published?

5. Who wrote The Color Purple?

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