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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 - 15.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the author describe emerging into racial adolescence when his parents took him to a new school in Chapter 3?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 13.
(d) 9.

2. What adored civil-rights lawyer wrote in The New York Times in 1985 that the "remedy ... is not as simple as providing necessities and opportunities," but urged the "overthrow of the complicated predatory ghetto subculture" (33)?
(a) Eleanor Holmes.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) James Cone.
(d) W.E.B. Du Bois.

3. Who introduced the term "culture of poverty" (185) in a 1959 ethnography of Mexican families?
(a) Kenneth Clark.
(b) E. Franklin Frazier.
(c) Philomena Essed.
(d) Oscar Lewis.

4. What are the offspring of the conjoined twins of racism and capitalism that threaten to kill them and all of us off, according to the author in Chapter 12?
(a) Sexism, homophobia, and war.
(b) Assimilation and segregation.
(c) Inequality, war, and climate change.
(d) Poverty and hatred.

5. Who was the immigrant student that the author describes teasing about his ethnic heritage in Chapter 5?
(a) Martin.
(b) Gbenga.
(c) Kwame.
(d) Jack.

Short Answer Questions

1. What case before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized Jim Crow segregation in 1896?

2. When was Message to the Blackman in America written?

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

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

5. Who warned in 1995, "Most inner-city children grow up surrounded by teenagers and adults who are themselves deviant, delinquent or criminal. A new generation of street criminals is upon us--the youngest, biggest and baddest generation any society has ever known" (94)?

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