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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) Gunnar Myrdal.
(c) Francis Galton.
(d) Chester Pierce.

2. Who wrote The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea in 1453?
(a) Addison Gayle Jr.
(b) Gomes de Zurara.
(c) Eleanor Holmes.
(d) Carl Linnaeus.

3. Who wrote The End of Racism in 1995?
(a) Chester Pierce.
(b) Dinesh D'Souza.
(c) Francis Galton.
(d) Thomas Dixon.

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

5. Who warned in 1995, "Most inner-city children grow up surrounded by teenagers and adults who are themselves deviant, delinquent or criminal. A new generation of street criminals is upon us--the youngest, biggest and baddest generation any society has ever known" (94)?
(a) Robert Park.
(b) John J. DiIulio.
(c) Isaac La Peyrere.
(d) Chester Pierce.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Native Son?

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

3. What percentage of the U.S. prison population in 2016 was comprised of Black and Latinx people?

4. What did the author's father study in college?

5. When was The Origin of Species published?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is an "assimilationist"?

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

3. What are the origins of ethnic racism, according to the author?

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

5. What does "eugenics" refer to?

6. How does the author dispute the idea that "African chiefs" sold their "own people" (74)?

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

8. What was the Black Power movement?

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

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

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