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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. Over what university did Samuel Stanhope Smith preside in early America?
(a) Rutgers.
(b) Princeton.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

2. Who directed the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song?
(a) Havelock Ellis.
(b) E. Franklin Frazier.
(c) Melvin von Peebles.
(d) Kenneth Clark.

3. What are the offspring of the conjoined twins of racism and capitalism that threaten to kill them and all of us off, according to the author in Chapter 12?
(a) Sexism, homophobia, and war.
(b) Assimilation and segregation.
(c) Poverty and hatred.
(d) Inequality, war, and climate change.

4. To what Philadelphia neighborhood did the author move in August of 2005?
(a) Hunting Park.
(b) Chinatown.
(c) Fishtown.
(d) Port Richmond.

5. Who said in 1995, "It isn't racist for Whites to say they don't understand why people put up with gangs on the corner or in the projects or with drugs being sold in the schools or in the open" (113)?
(a) Bill Clinton.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Reverend Jamie Johnson.
(d) Eric Holder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the author's friend at Temple that he learned was gay?

2. What novelist cointed the term "colorism"?

3. What seminal work did Molefi Kete Asante publish in 1980?

4. When was The Negro a Beast published?

5. In 1930, how much money did segregationist Alabama spend for each White student in public schools?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the term "anti-White racist" defined?

2. What is the movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song about?

3. What does "Black Lives Matter" refer to?

4. What is the Common Core State Standards Initiative?

5. What does "gender racism" refer to?

6. What does Brown v. Board of Education refer to?

7. What is a "class racist"?

8. How does the author define a "behavioral racist"?

9. What are some examples of the impacts of colorism described by the author?

10. Why did the student-leaders at FAMU direct a silent march in November of 2000?

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