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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Josiah Nott.
(c) Charles Carroll.
(d) Eric Holder.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who wrote The Color Purple?
(a) Alice Walker.
(b) Oscar Lewis.
(c) Havelock Ellis.
(d) Kenneth Clark.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote A Study of American Intelligence?

2. 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?

3. Where is Ama Mazama from originally?

4. Where did Ama Mazama earn her doctorate in linguistics?

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

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