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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dream (pages 108-132).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, how is racism experienced through real estate?
(a) Buyers are purposefully steered towards certain neighborhoods.
(b) Certain realtors refuse to work with black families.
(c) Neighborhood covenants prohibit black families from buying in certain areas.
(d) Property values are intentionally spiked in traditionally white neighborhoods.

2. Who is Linda Heywood?
(a) An American poet.
(b) A musician the author met at The Mecca.
(c) A Howard professor specialized in Central Africa.
(d) A protester from the Lawn.

3. What did the author notice about white children in Manhattan?
(a) They were fearless.
(b) They were hungry.
(c) There were very few of them.
(d) They clung to their parents.

4. What does the author recall always having, even when times were hard?
(a) Power.
(b) Money.
(c) Family and friends.
(d) Intelligence.

5. Coats quotes that sixty percent of all young black men who drop out of high school will:
(a) Join the military.
(b) Go to jail.
(c) End up homeless.
(d) Die before the age of 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, how does racism affect the body?

2. What has been the prevalent emotion in the author's life?

3. What 1986 event helped solidify the author's view that violence is inevitable?

4. How was the officer who killed Prince Jones dressed?

5. Whose image does the author see while at a museum?

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