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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Introduction - Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote in 1753, "I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all the other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites" (41)?
(a) Addison Gayle Jr.
(b) Gomes de Zurara.
(c) David Hume.
(d) Eleanor Holmes.

2. What was the approximate uninsured rate of African Americans and Latinx Americans when President Barack Obama left office?
(a) 16%.
(b) 35%.
(c) 8%.
(d) 11%.

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

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. Who wrote The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea in 1453?
(a) Gomes de Zurara.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) Carl Linnaeus.
(d) Eleanor Holmes.

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

3. 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)?

4. What middle name did the author's father choose for the author when he was born?

5. Who said, "'Racist' isn't a descriptive word. It's a pejorative word" (14)?

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