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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 novelist cointed the term "colorism"?
(a) Edward Byron Reuter.
(b) Alice Walker.
(c) Carl C. Brigham.
(d) Eric Holder.

2. Who stated, "America's Black community ... has turned America's major cities into slums because of laziness, drug use, and sexual promiscuity" (115)?
(a) Eric Holder.
(b) Reverend Jamie Johnson.
(c) Gomes de Zurara.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

3. Who wrote of the mulatto or biracial person that he is "a degenerate, unnatural offspring, doomed by nature to work out its own destruction" (141)?
(a) Edward Byron Reuter.
(b) Charles Carroll.
(c) Eric Holder.
(d) Josiah Nott.

4. When was Beyond the Melting Point published?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1963.

5. What was the Black poverty rate in 2017, according to the author in Chapter 12?
(a) 15%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 12%.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was The Plantation Negro as a Freeman published?

2. What Washington, D.C. prosecutor asked at an MLK birthday celebration in 1995, "Did Martin Luther King successfully fight the likes of Bull Connor so that we could ultimately lose the struggle for civil rights to misguided or malicious members of our own race" (113)?

3. When was the National Black Feminist Organization formed?

4. Who wrote The Plantation Negro as a Freeman?

5. Who wrote A Study of American Intelligence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "intersectionality"?

2. How are "space racism" and "space antiracism" defined?

3. How are racism and capitalism related?

4. How does the author define "queer racism" and "queer antiracism"?

5. What is the Common Core State Standards Initiative?

6. How does Ibram X. Kendi define "powerless defense"?

7. What does "gender racism" refer to?

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

9. What did the author learn when he took a prepratory course for the GRE?

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

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