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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. Who wrote The Mulatto in the United States in 1918?
(a) Carl C. Brigham.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Charles Carroll.
(d) Gomes de Zurara.

2. When did Peter Brown write a book that leaned on his human hair collection to classify hair and stated, "The hair of the white man is more perfect than that of the Negro" (141)?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1779.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1895.

3. When was Dark Ghetto published?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1975.
(d) 1965.

4. What seminal work did Molefi Kete Asante publish in 1980?
(a) Afrocentricity.
(b) Rush.
(c) Beyond the Melting Point.
(d) The Color Purple.

5. Who wrote Black Bourgeoisie in 1957?
(a) Kenneth Clark.
(b) Oscar Lewis.
(c) E. Franklin Frazier.
(d) Havelock Ellis.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was The Bell Curve published?

2. Where is Ama Mazama from originally?

3. Who wrote A Study of American Intelligence?

4. 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)?

5. Who wrote The Color Purple?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "intersectionality"?

2. What is the Common Core State Standards Initiative?

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

4. What does "PTSS" refer to?

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

6. When and where did capitalism emerge, according to the author?

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

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

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

10. What is a "class racist"?

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