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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. 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) James Cone.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Harry Blackmun.

2. Who was Charles Darwin's half cousin that powered the transatlantic eugenics movement?
(a) Chester Pierce.
(b) Nicholas Wade.
(c) Francis Galton.
(d) Robert Park.

3. According to Department of Education data, how many times more likely were Black students than White students to be suspended from public schools in the 2013-14 academic school year?
(a) 2 times more likely.
(b) 4 times more likely.
(c) 5 times more likely.
(d) 3 times more likely.

4. What does the author assert "is the real Black on Black crime" (13) in the Introduction?
(a) Individualized racism.
(b) Cultural racism.
(c) Internalized racism.
(d) Institutionalized racism.

5. Who wrote Systema Nature in 1735?
(a) Gomes de Zurara.
(b) Carl Linnaeus.
(c) Eleanor Holmes.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did the author's maternal grandparents move to New York?

2. According to the author in Chapter 1, what percentage of Latinx families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?

3. What adored civil-rights lawyer wrote in The New York Times in 1985 that the "remedy ... is not as simple as providing necessities and opportunities," but urged the "overthrow of the complicated predatory ghetto subculture" (33)?

4. Who wrote The End of Racism in 1995?

5. Where was the school that the author's parents took him to visit, as described in the narrative in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is an "assimilationist"?

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

3. What does Plessy v. Ferguson refer to?

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

5. How is a "biological racist" defined by the author?

6. What does "affirmative action" refer to?

7. What is meant by the term "microaggression"?

8. Who was Henry the Navigator and why does the author discuss him?

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

10. What does "immigrant self-selection" refer to (83)?

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