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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 - 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Bill Cosby tell the NAACP "we are not Africans" (106)?
(a) 2004.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1996.
(d) 2002.

2. In what field did the author's mother take on a career?
(a) International banking.
(b) Home decor.
(c) Healthcare technology.
(d) Architecture.

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

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

5. Who said, "'Racist' isn't a descriptive word. It's a pejorative word" (14)?
(a) Richard Spencer.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) Carl Linnaeus.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adored civil-rights lawyer wrote in The New York Times in 1985 that the "remedy ... is not as simple as providing necessities and opportunities," but urged the "overthrow of the complicated predatory ghetto subculture" (33)?

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

3. Who wrote Systema Nature in 1735?

4. What is the author's current middle name?

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

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