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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. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts?
(a) Exoneration.
(b) Leniency.
(c) Paucity.
(d) Attribution.

2. How much more likely are African Americans to die of cancer than Whites?
(a) 25%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 10%.
(d) 35%.

3. 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) John J. DiIulio.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Isaac La Peyrere.

4. Who wrote The Leopard's Spots?
(a) Thomas Dixon.
(b) Gunnar Myrdal.
(c) Francis Galton.
(d) Chester Pierce.

5. Where was the high school located that the author enrolled in for ninth grade?
(a) Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
(b) Flushing, Queens.
(c) Harlem, New York.
(d) Long Island, New York.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was the film Hoop Dreams released?

3. Who wrote Men Before Adam in 1655?

4. What term does the author prefer to replace "microaggressions" (58)?

5. When did Alexander Crummell found the first formal Black intellectual society?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Human Genome Project?

2. What does "eugenics" refer to?

3. What was the Black Power movement?

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

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

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

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

8. How does the author describe his feelings about the speech he gave, as described in the Introduction?

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

10. What does Plessy v. Ferguson refer to?

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