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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Nicholas Wade.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Jamie Johnson.
(d) Eric Holder.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. When was The Bell Curve published?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1936.

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

15. 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?
(a) Inequality, war, and climate change.
(b) Assimilation and segregation.
(c) Sexism, homophobia, and war.
(d) Poverty and hatred.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Negro a Beast?

2. Over what university did Samuel Stanhope Smith preside in early America?

3. When was The Plantation Negro as a Freeman published?

4. Who wrote The Mark of Oppression: A Psychosocial Study of the American Negro?

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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