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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Negro a Beast?
(a) Eric Holder.
(b) Charles Carroll.
(c) Carl C. Brigham.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

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

3. When did Harriet Tubman lead the Combahee River slave raid?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1863.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1869.

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. 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) 1865.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1850.

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

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

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

12. When was Beyond the Melting Point published?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1944.

13. When was Alexander Crummell's American Negro Academy founded?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1857.

14. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Carl C. Brigham.
(b) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(c) Charles Carroll.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the movie Shaft released?

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

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

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

5. Who argued in 1773, "All the vices which are charged upon the Negroes in the southern colonies and the West-Indies, such as Idleness, Treachery, Theft, and the like, are the genuine offspring of slavery" (117)?

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