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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who popularized the term "homosexual" in Studies in the Psychology of Sex in 1897?
(a) Carl C. Brigham.
(b) Havelock Ellis.
(c) Philomena Essed.
(d) Kenneth Clark.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the Scottsboro Boys falsely accused of raping two Alabama White women?

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)?

3. Who wrote Sexual Racism: The Emotional Barrier to an Integrated Society?

4. When was the author's ancestor Eliza born?

5. Where was the author's roommate Clarence from?

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