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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who wrote The Plantation Negro as a Freeman?
(a) Eric Holder.
(b) Jason Riley.
(c) Alexander Bruce.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

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

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

6. Who directed the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song?
(a) Havelock Ellis.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) Melvin von Peebles.
(d) E. Franklin Frazier.

7. Who wrote The Conscience of the Conservative in 1960?
(a) Oscar Lewis.
(b) Barry Goldwater.
(c) Kenneth Clark.
(d) E. Franklin Frazier.

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

9. 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) Eric Holder.
(c) Edward Byron Reuter.
(d) Nicholas Wade.

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

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

12. How much money did segregrationist Alabama spend on each Black student in public schools in 1930?
(a) $11.
(b) $9.
(c) $7.
(d) $15.

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

14. Who did the author's ancestor Eliza marry?
(a) Andrew.
(b) Lewis.
(c) Robert.
(d) Jack.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What novelist cointed the term "colorism"?

2. To what Philadelphia neighborhood did the author move in August of 2005?

3. The author asserts in Chapter 8 that the use of what "to measure aptitude and intelligent is one of the most effective racist policies ever devised to degrade Black minds and legally exclude Black bodies" (124)?

4. When was the author's ancestor Eliza born?

5. When were the Scottsboro Boys falsely accused of raping two Alabama White women?

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