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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. When was the National Black Feminist Organization formed?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1999.

10. 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) Eric Holder.
(b) Josiah Nott.
(c) Edward Byron Reuter.
(d) Charles Carroll.

11. Who was the author's friend at Temple that he learned was gay?
(a) Wilson.
(b) Weckea.
(c) Roger.
(d) Gbenga.

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

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

14. Who wrote Dark Ghetto?
(a) E. Franklin Frazier.
(b) Philomena Essed.
(c) Kenneth Clark.
(d) Oscar Lewis.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who popularized the term "homosexual" in Studies in the Psychology of Sex in 1897?

2. 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)?

3. Who did the author's ancestor Eliza marry?

4. 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?

5. Who wrote The Negro a Beast?

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