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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author assert is "the heartbeat of racism, beating across ideologies, races, and nations" (14) in the Introduction?
(a) Denial.
(b) Rage.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Ignorance.

2. What did the author's father study in college?
(a) Education.
(b) Accounting.
(c) African American studies.
(d) Sociology.

3. When did the author's father join Floyd H. Flake's ministerial staff?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1991.

4. Who was the immigrant student that the author describes teasing about his ethnic heritage in Chapter 5?
(a) Gbenga.
(b) Martin.
(c) Jack.
(d) Kwame.

5. Who wrote in 1978, "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently" (26)?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) James Cone.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) Harry Blackmun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is defined in Chapter 2 as "One who is expressing the racist idea that a racial group is culturally or behaviorally inferior and is supporting cultural or behavioral enrichment programs to develop that group" (30)?

2. When does the author describe Soul Liberation performing at the University of Illinois in Chapter 1?

3. Who was cursed by Noah in the Bible because his father viewed Noah in his nakedness?

4. Who wrote Men Before Adam in 1655?

5. What was the Latinx immigrant population in the U.S. in 2000?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are the terms "bodily racist" and "bodily antiracist" defined?

2. What was the Black Power movement?

3. How is "ethnic racism" defined by the author?

4. Why does the author assert that definitions are important?

5. What, according to the author, is the problem with being "not racist"?

6. Why does the author no longer use the term "microaggression" anymore?

7. How is "racial inequity" defined by the author?

8. What led the author to "protest" in third grade?

9. How does the author define the terms "racist" and "antiracist"?

10. What are "polygenesis" and "monogenesis"?

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