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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapters 24 - Afterword).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the world's most famous Black male political prisoner in 1995 according to Reynolds and Kendi?
(a) Malcolm Ring.
(b) Mumia Abu-Jamal.
(c) Muhammed Jendi.
(d) Clarence Roster.

2. Who was the famously racist White police chief in Birmingham Alabama in 1963?
(a) Charles Rhodes.
(b) "Bull" Connor.
(c) Robert James.
(d) Marshall Creek.

3. Which movie in the 1960s do Reynolds and Kendi compare to Tarzan and The Birth of a Nation?
(a) Zartura.
(b) Slash.
(c) Sankofa.
(d) Planet of the Apes.

4. How did the world's first racist depict Africans in his book, according to Reynolds and Kendi?
(a) As savages that needed training.
(b) As lazy people who needed to be instilled with a better work ethic.
(c) As lost souls who could be rehabilitated.
(d) As people who were physically well-suited for work.

5. Which scientist in Chapter 12, the father of American anthropology, measured skulls as an indicator of intelligence?
(a) Samuel Morton.
(b) Marshall Morton.
(c) Michael Morton.
(d) Jefferson Morton.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Reynolds and Kendi describe Du Bois?

2. Which formerly enslaved woman wrote an antislavery book?

3. Which set of racist laws became enacted in the U.S. following the Civil War?

4. What do Reynolds and Kendi say race has been in American history throughout the ages?

5. Who immigrated from Germany to America in 1886 because of anti-Jewish persecution in Chapter 15?

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