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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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) Inequality, war, and climate change.
(c) Poverty and hatred.
(d) Assimilation and segregation.

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

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

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

11. 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) Jamie Johnson.
(c) Edward Byron Reuter.
(d) Eric Holder.

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) 1865.
(b) 1779.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1895.

13. When was the movie Shaft released?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1985.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Ama Mazama from originally?

2. When did the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education take place?

3. When was the National Black Feminist Organization formed?

4. Over what university did Samuel Stanhope Smith preside in early America?

5. When was Beyond the Melting Point published?

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