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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) David Hume.
(b) Eleanor Holmes.
(c) Gomes de Zurara.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

2. What does the author assert "is the real Black on Black crime" (13) in the Introduction?
(a) Institutionalized racism.
(b) Internalized racism.
(c) Individualized racism.
(d) Cultural racism.

3. When does the author describe Soul Liberation performing at the University of Illinois in Chapter 1?
(a) 1975.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1960.

4. Who wrote in 1978, "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently" (26)?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) Harry Blackmun.
(d) James Cone.

5. From where did the author's maternal grandparents move to New York?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Alabama.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the manifesto The Spook Who Sat by the Door?

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

3. What was the approximate uninsured rate of African Americans and Latinx Americans when President Barack Obama left office?

4. What case before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized Jim Crow segregation in 1896?

5. What are the names of the author's maternal grandparents?

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