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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 Origin of Species published?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1899.

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

3. Who wrote An American Dilemma?
(a) Gunnar Myrdal.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Isaac La Peyrere.

4. When was Alexander Crummell's American Negro Academy founded?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1857.
(d) 1902.

5. When was Beyond the Melting Point published?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1969.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Trayvon Martin's killer acquitted of murder?

2. 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)?

3. What percentage of the U.S. prison population in 2016 was comprised of Black and Latinx people?

4. When was the term "colorism" coined?

5. What was the author diagnosed with in 2018?

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