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

2. Who wrote the 2014 book A Troublesome Inheritance?
(a) Robert Park.
(b) Nicholas Wade.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Francis Galton.

3. Who said, "'Racist' isn't a descriptive word. It's a pejorative word" (14)?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Carl Linnaeus.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) Richard Spencer.

4. 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)?
(a) James Cone.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Lyndon B. Johnson.

5. How many students attended the high school that the author attended?
(a) 500.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 1,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the term "microaggression" coined?

2. Who wrote Roots?

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)?

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

5. In 2016, what percentage of urban residents in the U.S. reported being victims of violent crimes?

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