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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 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) Inequality, war, and climate change.
(b) Poverty and hatred.
(c) Sexism, homophobia, and war.
(d) Assimilation and segregation.

2. When was The Negro a Beast published?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1925.

3. 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)?
(a) Nicholas Wade.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Jamie Johnson.
(d) Eric Holder.

4. When was Message to the Blackman in America written?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1965.

5. What is the average U.S. life expectancy of a transgender woman of color, according to the author in Chapter 15?
(a) 65.
(b) 35.
(c) 45.
(d) 55.

Short Answer Questions

1. Over what university did Samuel Stanhope Smith preside in early America?

2. Where was the author's roommate Clarence from?

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)?

4. How much money did segregrationist Alabama spend on each Black student in public schools in 1930?

5. When was the term "colorism" coined?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "intersectionality"?

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

3. What is a "class racist"?

4. What does "gender racism" refer to?

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

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

7. What does "PTSS" refer to?

8. What was the No Child Left Behind Act?

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

10. Where did the author move when he began his studies at Temple University? Why?

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