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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Charles Carroll.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Carl C. Brigham.
(d) Harriet Beecher Stowe.

2. What percentage of Black children born into single-parent homes did Charles Murray claim we had reached in 1994?
(a) 76%.
(b) 68%.
(c) 82%.
(d) 23%.

3. Who did the author's ancestor Eliza marry?
(a) Lewis.
(b) Robert.
(c) Andrew.
(d) Jack.

4. Who wrote Sexual Racism: The Emotional Barrier to an Integrated Society?
(a) Kenneth Clark.
(b) Charles Hebert Stember.
(c) Havelock Ellis.
(d) Oscar Lewis.

5. What are the offspring of the conjoined twins of racism and capitalism that threaten to kill them and all of us off, according to the author in Chapter 12?
(a) Sexism, homophobia, and war.
(b) Poverty and hatred.
(c) Assimilation and segregation.
(d) Inequality, war, and climate change.

6. When was the National Black Feminist Organization formed?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1979.

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

8. What novelist cointed the term "colorism"?
(a) Alice Walker.
(b) Carl C. Brigham.
(c) Edward Byron Reuter.
(d) Eric Holder.

9. Who wrote "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action" in 1965?
(a) Kenneth Clark.
(b) Oscar Lewis.
(c) Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
(d) Havelock Ellis.

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

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

12. When did Peter Brown write a book that leaned on his human hair collection to classify hair and stated, "The hair of the white man is more perfect than that of the Negro" (141)?
(a) 1779.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1865.

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

14. When was Alexander Crummell's American Negro Academy founded?
(a) 1857.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1897.

15. When did revolutionaries eliminate capitalism in Cuba?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1959.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the author's friend at Temple that he learned was gay?

2. Who wrote Black Bourgeoisie in 1957?

3. In 1930, how much money did segregationist Alabama spend for each White student in public schools?

4. Who wrote The Mark of Oppression: A Psychosocial Study of the American Negro?

5. The author asserts in Chapter 8 that the use of what "to measure aptitude and intelligent is one of the most effective racist policies ever devised to degrade Black minds and legally exclude Black bodies" (124)?

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