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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16 - 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was The Plantation Negro as a Freeman published?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1889.

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

3. Who wrote The Souls of Black Folk in 1903?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Gomes de Zurara.
(c) Eleanor Holmes.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

4. By how many votes did Donald Trump win the state of Wisconsin in the 2016 election?
(a) 14,634.
(b) 45,353.
(c) 29,245.
(d) 22,748.

5. What percentage of the U.S. prison population in 2016 was comprised of Black and Latinx people?
(a) 72%.
(b) 56%.
(c) 67%.
(d) 23%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of White families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?

2. Who wrote The Fire Next Time?

3. Who said in 1965, "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, 'You are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair" (26)?

4. When does the author describe performing in the final round of the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorial contest in the Introduction?

5. Who directed the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song?

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