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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who is the founder of Kwanzaa?
(a) Oscar Lewis.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) Maulana Karenga.
(d) Havelock Ellis.

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

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

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

12. Where is Ama Mazama from originally?
(a) Guadeloupe.
(b) Haiti.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Jamaica.

13. What Washington, D.C. prosecutor asked at an MLK birthday celebration in 1995, "Did Martin Luther King successfully fight the likes of Bull Connor so that we could ultimately lose the struggle for civil rights to misguided or malicious members of our own race" (113)?
(a) Jamie Johnson.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Eric Holder.
(d) Nicholas Wade.

14. When was the term "colorism" coined?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1989.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money did segregrationist Alabama spend on each Black student in public schools in 1930?

2. Who stated, "America's Black community ... has turned America's major cities into slums because of laziness, drug use, and sexual promiscuity" (115)?

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

4. 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)?

5. What novelist cointed the term "colorism"?

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