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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who introduced the term "culture of poverty" (185) in a 1959 ethnography of Mexican families?
(a) E. Franklin Frazier.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) Oscar Lewis.
(d) Philomena Essed.

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

5. When was the movie Shaft released?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1985.

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

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

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

9. What novelist cointed the term "colorism"?
(a) Edward Byron Reuter.
(b) Alice Walker.
(c) Carl C. Brigham.
(d) Eric Holder.

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

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

12. 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) Eric Holder.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Bill Clinton.
(d) Reverend Jamie Johnson.

13. 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)?
(a) Jason Riley.
(b) Reverend Jamie Johnson.
(c) Edward Byron Reuter.
(d) Eric Holder.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. In the presidential election in 2000, how many ballots were invalidated by Florida election officials?

3. In 1930, how much money did segregationist Alabama spend for each White student in public schools?

4. When was the term "colorism" coined?

5. Who directed the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song?

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