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

2. In 2016, what percentage of urban residents in the U.S. reported being victims of violent crimes?
(a) 7.4%.
(b) 9%.
(c) 43%.
(d) 3%.

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

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

5. 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) Eleanor Holmes.
(c) David Hume.
(d) Gomes de Zurara.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who taught the class "The Black Aesthetic" that the author's father attended in college?

2. When did the author's family move from New York to Virginia?

3. Where did the author enroll in high school in the ninth grade?

4. Who wrote The Leopard's Spots?

5. When was An American Dilemma published?

(see the answer key)

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