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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of Black children born into single-parent homes did Charles Murray claim we had reached in 1994?
(a) 76%.
(b) 68%.
(c) 82%.
(d) 23%.

2. Who wrote Native Son?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Sam Greenlee.
(d) Richard Wright.

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

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

5. What Heritage Foundation president wrote in 2018, "Being black and the daughter of a former welfare recipient, I know firsthand the unintended harm welfare has caused" (187)?
(a) E. Franklin Frazier.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) Oscar Lewis.
(d) Kay Coles James.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of the author's maternal grandparents?

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

3. Who was the author's friend at Temple that he learned was gay?

4. What did the author's father study in college?

5. Who said in 1980, "We have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals" (30)?

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