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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the school that the author's parents took him to visit, as described in the narrative in Chapter 3?
(a) Harlem.
(b) Long Island.
(c) Greenwich Village.
(d) Staten Island.

2. 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.

3. When was Alexander Crummell's American Negro Academy founded?
(a) 1902.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1857.
(d) 1897.

4. Approximately what percentage of the U.S. population does the author assert Black people comprise?
(a) 16%.
(b) 5%.
(c) 22%
(d) 13%.

5. Who coined the term "microaggression"?
(a) Thomas Dixon.
(b) Francis Galton.
(c) Gunnar Myrdal.
(d) Chester Pierce.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author assert "is the real Black on Black crime" (13) in the Introduction?

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

3. What U.S. senator told his colleagues in 1903, "The poor African has become a fiend, a wild beast, seeking whom he may devour" (87)?

4. When was The Negro a Beast published?

5. Who wrote Sexual Racism: The Emotional Barrier to an Integrated Society?

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