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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the author's father study in college?
(a) Accounting.
(b) Education.
(c) Sociology.
(d) African American studies.

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

3. What percentage of White families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?
(a) 55%.
(b) 71%.
(c) 41%.
(d) 45%.

4. What is the author's current middle name?
(a) Xanbi.
(b) Xavier.
(c) Xolani.
(d) Xalen.

5. When did the author's mother celebrate her 31st birthday?
(a) June 24, 1982.
(b) September 12, 1980.
(c) June 2, 1998.
(d) March 15, 1995.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the author describe emerging into racial adolescence when his parents took him to a new school in Chapter 3?

2. 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)?

3. According to the author, how much longer do White Americans live over their Black counterparts?

4. Where was the school that the author's parents took him to visit, as described in the narrative in Chapter 3?

5. What term is defined in Chapter 1 as: "when two or more racial groups are not standing on approximately equal footing" (24)?

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