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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who wrote A Study of American Intelligence?
(a) Eric Holder.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Jason Riley.
(d) Carl C. Brigham.

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

8. When did the FAMU marching band play for Prince at the Super Bowl?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2000.
(c) 2007.
(d) 2003.

9. Who wrote of the mulatto or biracial person that he is "a degenerate, unnatural offspring, doomed by nature to work out its own destruction" (141)?
(a) Charles Carroll.
(b) Eric Holder.
(c) Edward Byron Reuter.
(d) Josiah Nott.

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

11. Who said in 1995, "It isn't racist for Whites to say they don't understand why people put up with gangs on the corner or in the projects or with drugs being sold in the schools or in the open" (113)?
(a) Edward Byron Reuter.
(b) Reverend Jamie Johnson.
(c) Bill Clinton.
(d) Eric Holder.

12. When was Message to the Blackman in America written?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1970.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Plantation Negro as a Freeman?

2. 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)?

3. When was The Negro a Beast published?

4. When was the movie Shaft released?

5. When was The Plantation Negro as a Freeman published?

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