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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was The Bell Curve published?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1959.

2. Who taught the class "The Black Aesthetic" that the author's father attended in college?
(a) Sam Greenlee.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

3. According to the author, "The 1882 Chinese Restriction Act was exted to an even broader act, encompassing a larger 'Asiatic Barred Zone'" in what year (76)?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1925.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1902.

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

5. Over what university did Samuel Stanhope Smith preside in early America?
(a) Yale.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Rutgers.

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did the author's maternal grandparents move to New York?

2. Who wrote The Mark of Oppression: A Psychosocial Study of the American Negro?

3. Where did the author's father attend college?

4. Who wrote The Negro a Beast?

5. What does the author assert is "the heartbeat of racism, beating across ideologies, races, and nations" (14) in the Introduction?

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