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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was the Black Women's Alliance formed?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1955.

3. When was the term "colorism" coined?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1975.

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

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

6. To what Philadelphia neighborhood did the author move in August of 2005?
(a) Hunting Park.
(b) Chinatown.
(c) Fishtown.
(d) Port Richmond.

7. 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) 1865.
(d) 1850.

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

9. 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) Inequality, war, and climate change.
(b) Sexism, homophobia, and war.
(c) Poverty and hatred.
(d) Assimilation and segregation.

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

11. When were the Scottsboro Boys falsely accused of raping two Alabama White women?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1959.

12. When was the author's ancestor Eliza born?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1875.

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

14. Who wrote The Color Purple?
(a) Alice Walker.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) Havelock Ellis.
(d) Oscar Lewis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action" in 1965?

2. How much money did segregrationist Alabama spend on each Black student in public schools in 1930?

3. 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)?

4. When did Harriet Tubman lead the Combahee River slave raid?

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

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