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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 - 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Black Theology and Black Power in 1969?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Carl Linnaeus.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) James Cone.

2. Where did the author's family move to in Virginia after leaving New York City?
(a) Manassas.
(b) Richmond.
(c) Charlottesville.
(d) Roanoke.

3. 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) Harry Blackmun.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) James Cone.

4. What word from Chapter 1 refers to the presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts?
(a) Paucity.
(b) Leniency.
(c) Attribution.
(d) Exoneration.

5. What are the names of the author's parents?
(a) Amy and James.
(b) Rhonda and Sam.
(c) Emily and Jack.
(d) Carol and Larry.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author in Chapter 1, what percentage of Latinx families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?

2. Who wrote An American Dilemma?

3. When did a bipartisan group of White legislators introduce the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, according to the author in Chapter 6?

4. 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)?

5. 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)?

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