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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 - 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Latinx immigrant population in the U.S. in 1980?
(a) 10.3 million.
(b) 4.2 million.
(c) 6.2 million.
(d) 14.1 million.

2. Who directed the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song?
(a) Melvin von Peebles.
(b) E. Franklin Frazier.
(c) Havelock Ellis.
(d) Kenneth Clark.

3. What nickname did the author get named in seventh and eighth grades?
(a) Smurf.
(b) Bonk.
(c) Rat.
(d) Robot.

4. Who wrote the 2005 book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome?
(a) Jason Riley.
(b) Joy DeGruy.
(c) Eric Holder.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

5. Who wrote of the mulatto or biracial person that he is "a degenerate, unnatural offspring, doomed by nature to work out its own destruction" (141)?
(a) Charles Carroll.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Eric Holder.
(d) Josiah Nott.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said, "It is very difficult to find in the South today anything that can be traced directly back to Africa" (106) in 1919?

2. What term does the author prefer to replace "microaggressions" (58)?

3. Who coined the term "microaggression"?

4. Who warned in 1995, "Most inner-city children grow up surrounded by teenagers and adults who are themselves deviant, delinquent or criminal. A new generation of street criminals is upon us--the youngest, biggest and baddest generation any society has ever known" (94)?

5. Who said in 2016, "Although black civil rights leaders like to point to a supposedly racist criminal justice system to explain why our prisons house so many black men, it's been obvious for decades that the real culprit is black behavior" (116)?

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