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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author states in Chapter 6 that in recent years, the University of Chicago Crime Lab worked with the One Summer Chicago Plus jobs program and found what percent "reduction in violent-crime arrests for Black youths who worked eight-week-long part-time summer jobs, compared with a control group of teens who did not" (98)?

2. Who wrote Native Son?

3. Who said in 1965, "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, 'You are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair" (26)?

4. Who wrote the 2014 book A Troublesome Inheritance?

5. Who wrote The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea in 1453?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the origins of ethnic racism, according to the author?

2. What was the Black Power movement?

3. How does the author define the terms "racist" and "antiracist"?

4. How does the author dispute the idea that "African chiefs" sold their "own people" (74)?

5. What does "immigrant self-selection" refer to (83)?

6. What does "affirmative action" refer to?

7. What was the Human Genome Project?

8. What is meant by the term "microaggression"?

9. How does the author describe his feelings about the speech he gave, as described in the Introduction?

10. What does Plessy v. Ferguson refer to?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What connections between racism and capitalism does the author present in How to Be an Antiracist? When were capitalism and racism originated? How were they connected at their origins? How are they connected today?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the biography and career of author Ibram X. Kendi. When and where was the author born? What was his childhood like? How did his childhood and upbringing influence his ideas on race and racism?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the life of Prince Henry the Navigator. What was Prince Henry's role in the establishment of the slave trade? How did Prince Henry contribute to the origins of capitalism? What connection does the author have to Prince Henry?

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