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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Integrated schools.
(b) Segregated schools.
(c) Common core standards.
(d) Standardized tests.

3. In 1930, how much money did segregationist Alabama spend for each White student in public schools?
(a) $23.
(b) $37.
(c) $32.
(d) $56.

4. Who directed the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song?
(a) Kenneth Clark.
(b) Havelock Ellis.
(c) E. Franklin Frazier.
(d) Melvin von Peebles.

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

6. What was the Black poverty rate in 2017, according to the author in Chapter 12?
(a) 15%.
(b) 12%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 10%.

7. When was The Bell Curve published?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1936.

8. Who wrote Black Bourgeoisie in 1957?
(a) Kenneth Clark.
(b) Oscar Lewis.
(c) E. Franklin Frazier.
(d) Havelock Ellis.

9. Where is Ama Mazama from originally?
(a) Guadeloupe.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Haiti.
(d) Jamaica.

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

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

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

13. When was Dark Ghetto published?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1954.

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

15. Who is the founder of Kwanzaa?
(a) Oscar Lewis.
(b) Maulana Karenga.
(c) Kenneth Clark.
(d) Havelock Ellis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did the author's ancestor Eliza marry?

2. When was Alexander Crummell's American Negro Academy founded?

3. When was the movie Shaft released?

4. 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)?

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

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