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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. When was the founding meeting of the Socialist Party of America?
(a) 1889.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1901.

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

3. 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) Standardized tests.
(c) Common core standards.
(d) Segregated schools.

4. 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) Eric Holder.
(b) Reverend Jamie Johnson.
(c) Edward Byron Reuter.
(d) Bill Clinton.

5. When was the National Black Feminist Organization formed?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were the Scottsboro Boys falsely accused of raping two Alabama White women?

2. When was Beyond the Melting Point published?

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

4. When was Message to the Blackman in America written?

5. When did Harriet Tubman lead the Combahee River slave raid?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the No Child Left Behind Act?

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

5. What is a "class racist"?

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

7. What is the Common Core State Standards Initiative?

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

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

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

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