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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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)?
(a) Standardized tests.
(b) Segregated schools.
(c) Integrated schools.
(d) Common core standards.

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

3. When was the founding meeting of the Socialist Party of America?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1919.

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

5. When was Uncle Tom's Cabin published?
(a) 1852.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1869.

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

7. Who wrote The Mulatto in the United States in 1918?
(a) Edward Byron Reuter.
(b) Charles Carroll.
(c) Gomes de Zurara.
(d) Carl C. Brigham.

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

9. In the presidential election in 2000, how many ballots were invalidated by Florida election officials?
(a) 99,353.
(b) 179,855.
(c) 134,253.
(d) 234,522.

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

11. What is the average U.S. life expectancy of a transgender woman of color, according to the author in Chapter 15?
(a) 35.
(b) 45.
(c) 65.
(d) 55.

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

13. What Washington, D.C. prosecutor asked at an MLK birthday celebration in 1995, "Did Martin Luther King successfully fight the likes of Bull Connor so that we could ultimately lose the struggle for civil rights to misguided or malicious members of our own race" (113)?
(a) Nicholas Wade.
(b) Eric Holder.
(c) Jamie Johnson.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

14. Who wrote the book Understanding Everyday Racism?
(a) Havelock Ellis.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) Oscar Lewis.
(d) Philomena Essed.

15. Who wrote The Negro a Beast?
(a) Charles Carroll.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Eric Holder.
(d) Carl C. Brigham.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Conscience of the Conservative in 1960?

2. Who wrote Dark Ghetto?

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. When was the movie Shaft released?

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