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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. When was The Negro a Beast published?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1925.

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

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

9. 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) Jamie Johnson.
(b) Eric Holder.
(c) Nicholas Wade.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

10. When did the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education take place?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1948.

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

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

13. When was The Plantation Negro as a Freeman published?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1919.

14. Who stated, "America's Black community ... has turned America's major cities into slums because of laziness, drug use, and sexual promiscuity" (115)?
(a) Gomes de Zurara.
(b) Eric Holder.
(c) Reverend Jamie Johnson.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

2. Where did Ama Mazama earn her doctorate in linguistics?

3. What seminal work did Molefi Kete Asante publish in 1980?

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

5. When was Beyond the Melting Point published?

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