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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. Who stated, "America's Black community ... has turned America's major cities into slums because of laziness, drug use, and sexual promiscuity" (115)?

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

3. What was the Black poverty rate in 2017, according to the author in Chapter 12?

4. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

5. Who wrote The Mulatto in the United States in 1918?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the No Child Left Behind Act?

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

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

4. What does "gender racism" refer to?

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

6. What is the Common Core State Standards Initiative?

7. How are "space racism" and "space antiracism" defined?

8. What is a "class racist"?

9. What is "intersectionality"?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss the terms "institutional racism" and "systemic racism." How does the author define these terms? What term(s) does he prefer to them? Why?

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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