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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. Who stated, "The blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to whites in the endowments both of body and mind" (27)?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

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

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

5. What term does the author prefer to replace "microaggressions" (58)?
(a) Abuse.
(b) Discrimination.
(c) Systemic racism.
(d) Institutional racism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What percentage of White families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?

3. When does the author describe performing in the final round of the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorial contest in the Introduction?

4. According to the author, "The 1882 Chinese Restriction Act was exted to an even broader act, encompassing a larger 'Asiatic Barred Zone'" in what year (76)?

5. What case before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized Jim Crow segregation in 1896?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe entering "racial puberty" in Chapter 3?

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

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

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

5. What does "eugenics" refer to?

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

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

8. How are denial and racism connected, according to the author in the Introduction?

9. What was the Black Power movement?

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

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