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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where was the author's roommate Clarence from?
(a) Houston, TX.
(b) Berkeley, CA.
(c) Little Rock, AR.
(d) Birmingham, AL.

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

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

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

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

8. 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)?
(a) Edward Byron Reuter.
(b) Eric Holder.
(c) Jason Riley.
(d) Benjamin Rush.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Conscience of the Conservative in 1960?

2. When was Alexander Crummell's American Negro Academy founded?

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

4. Who wrote "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action" in 1965?

5. What Heritage Foundation president wrote in 2018, "Being black and the daughter of a former welfare recipient, I know firsthand the unintended harm welfare has caused" (187)?

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