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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. When does the author describe emerging into racial adolescence when his parents took him to a new school in Chapter 3?
(a) 13.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 9.

2. In what field did the author's mother take on a career?
(a) Home decor.
(b) International banking.
(c) Architecture.
(d) Healthcare technology.

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) 5 times more likely.
(b) 3 times more likely.
(c) 4 times more likely.
(d) 2 times more likely.

4. Who wrote Men Before Adam in 1655?
(a) Chester Pierce.
(b) Francis Galton.
(c) Thomas Dixon.
(d) Isaac La Peyrere.

5. Approximately what percentage of the U.S. population does the author assert Black people comprise?
(a) 13%.
(b) 22%
(c) 16%.
(d) 5%.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 6 that in recent years, the University of Chicago Crime Lab worked with the One Summer Chicago Plus jobs program and found what percent "reduction in violent-crime arrests for Black youths who worked eight-week-long part-time summer jobs, compared with a control group of teens who did not" (98)?

2. In 1993, what percentage of urban residents reported being victims of violent crime in the U.S.?

3. Who signed the Immigration Act of 1924 into law?

4. When did a bipartisan group of White legislators introduce the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, according to the author in Chapter 6?

5. What nickname did the author get named in seventh and eighth grades?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the "war on drugs" refer to?

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

3. What was the Human Genome Project?

4. What does "affirmative action" refer to?

5. What does "eugenics" refer to?

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

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

8. Why was the author giving a speech in the scenario he described in the Introduction? What was the speech about?

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

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

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