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

2. Who coined the term "Ebonics"?
(a) Isaac La Peyrere.
(b) Robert Williams.
(c) Robert Park.
(d) Chester Pierce.

3. What was the nickname of the boy that held a gun on the author on the school bus, as described in Chapter 6?
(a) Monster.
(b) Robot.
(c) Smurf.
(d) Rat.

4. Who wrote The Souls of Black Folk in 1903?
(a) Addison Gayle Jr.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Gomes de Zurara.
(d) Eleanor Holmes.

5. What middle name did the author's father choose for the author when he was born?
(a) Conrad.
(b) Ellis.
(c) James.
(d) Henry.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. When was the film Hoop Dreams released?

3. 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)?

4. Who was cursed by Noah in the Bible because his father viewed Noah in his nakedness?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Plessy v. Ferguson refer to?

4. Why does the author prefer the term "racist policy" over "institutional racism" or "systemic racism"?

5. What does "affirmative action" refer to?

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

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

8. What was the Human Genome Project?

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

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

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