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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What case before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized Jim Crow segregation in 1896?
(a) Brown v. Board of Education.
(b) Dred Scott v. Sandford.
(c) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(d) Powell v. Alabama.

2. When did the author's father join Floyd H. Flake's ministerial staff?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1989.

3. Where was the high school located that the author enrolled in for ninth grade?
(a) Flushing, Queens.
(b) Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
(c) Harlem, New York.
(d) Long Island, New York.

4. When was Message to the Blackman in America written?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1970.

5. When does the author describe performing in the final round of the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorial contest in the Introduction?
(a) June 2, 1998.
(b) September 12, 2003.
(c) January 17, 2000.
(d) March 15, 1995.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the author's mother celebrate her 31st birthday?

2. When did a bipartisan group of White legislators introduce the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, according to the author in Chapter 6?

3. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

4. When was The Negro a Beast published?

5. Who said in 1995, "It isn't racist for Whites to say they don't understand why people put up with gangs on the corner or in the projects or with drugs being sold in the schools or in the open" (113)?

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