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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Systema Nature in 1735?
(a) Addison Gayle Jr.
(b) Carl Linnaeus.
(c) Eleanor Holmes.
(d) Gomes de Zurara.

2. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(b) Carl C. Brigham.
(c) Edward Byron Reuter.
(d) Charles Carroll.

3. According to the author in Chapter 1, what percentage of Latinx families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?
(a) 71%.
(b) 45%.
(c) 52%.
(d) 41%.

4. When did the author's mother celebrate her 31st birthday?
(a) March 15, 1995.
(b) June 2, 1998.
(c) September 12, 1980.
(d) June 24, 1982.

5. Where did the author's family move to in Virginia after leaving New York City?
(a) Roanoke.
(b) Manassas.
(c) Charlottesville.
(d) Richmond.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term is defined in Chapter 1 as: "when two or more racial groups are not standing on approximately equal footing" (24)?

2. How many students attended the high school that the author attended?

3. When were the Scottsboro Boys falsely accused of raping two Alabama White women?

4. What novelist cointed the term "colorism"?

5. Over what university did Samuel Stanhope Smith preside in early America?

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