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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. When did Bill Cosby tell the NAACP "we are not Africans" (106)?

2. What is the author's current middle name?

3. When did the author's father join Floyd H. Flake's ministerial staff?

4. What U.S. senator told his colleagues in 1903, "The poor African has become a fiend, a wild beast, seeking whom he may devour" (87)?

5. What percentatge of Black families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does "affirmative action" refer to?

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

3. What does Plessy v. Ferguson refer to?

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

5. What is the "curse theory" regarding racism?

6. How is "ethnic racism" defined by the author?

7. Why does the author assert that definitions are important?

8. What led the author to "protest" in third grade?

9. Why does the author prefer the term "racist policy" over "institutional racism" or "systemic racism"?

10. What does the "war on drugs" refer to?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do assimilationism and segregationism mean? How do these terms connect to racism? How do the terms oppose one another? What underlying truths exist in each of these terms?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the speech that the author describes giving in the Introduction. What were the main points in the speech? Why does the author feel shame about the speech? How was the speech received? Why does the author include this story in the book?

Essay Topic 3

Define and discuss the term "microaggression." What does this term mean to you? How is it defined by the author? Why does the author oppose this term? What does he replace it with? Why?

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