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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 Conscience of the Conservative in 1960?
(a) Oscar Lewis.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) E. Franklin Frazier.
(d) Barry Goldwater.

2. When was the term "colorism" coined?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1975.

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

4. Who wrote The Color Purple?
(a) Alice Walker.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) Oscar Lewis.
(d) Havelock Ellis.

5. The author asserts in Chapter 8 that the use of what "to measure aptitude and intelligent is one of the most effective racist policies ever devised to degrade Black minds and legally exclude Black bodies" (124)?
(a) Integrated schools.
(b) Common core standards.
(c) Segregated schools.
(d) Standardized tests.

Short Answer Questions

1. What novelist cointed the term "colorism"?

2. When was Alexander Crummell's American Negro Academy founded?

3. Who is the founder of Kwanzaa?

4. 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)?

5. In the presidential election in 2000, how many ballots were invalidated by Florida election officials?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does "gender racism" refer to?

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

3. What does "PTSS" refer to?

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

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

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

7. What is "intersectionality"?

8. What are the author's views on standardized testing?

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

10. What is the Common Core State Standards Initiative?

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