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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 coined the term "microaggression"?
(a) Thomas Dixon.
(b) Chester Pierce.
(c) Francis Galton.
(d) Gunnar Myrdal.

2. Where did the author's mother attend college?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) Howard University.
(c) Baruch College.
(d) Nyack College.

3. Where did the author enroll in high school in the ninth grade?
(a) George Roberts High School.
(b) John Browne High School.
(c) Robert Kennedy High School.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr. High School.

4. When does the author describe Soul Liberation performing at the University of Illinois in Chapter 1?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1975.

5. Who wrote The Fire Next Time?
(a) Sam Greenlee.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Richard Wright.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did President Bill Clinton state, "Blacks must understand and acknowledge the roots of White fear in America" (86)?

2. 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)?

3. What U.S. senator told his colleagues in 1903, "The poor African has become a fiend, a wild beast, seeking whom he may devour" (87)?

4. Who said, "'Racist' isn't a descriptive word. It's a pejorative word" (14)?

5. What are the names of the author's parents?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Human Genome Project?

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

3. How does the author describe his third grade teacher in Chapter 4?

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

5. What was the Black Power movement?

6. What is the "curse theory" regarding racism?

7. How does the author define a "segregationist"?

8. What does "eugenics" refer to?

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

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

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