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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term does the author prefer to replace "microaggressions" (58)?
(a) Systemic racism.
(b) Abuse.
(c) Discrimination.
(d) Institutional racism.

2. 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) 1917.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1925.

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

4. Who wrote An American Dilemma?
(a) Chester Pierce.
(b) Isaac La Peyrere.
(c) Gunnar Myrdal.
(d) Robert Park.

5. Where did the author's mother attend college?
(a) Howard University.
(b) Baruch College.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Nyack College.

6. Where was the high school located that the author enrolled in for ninth grade?
(a) Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
(b) Harlem, New York.
(c) Long Island, New York.
(d) Flushing, Queens.

7. What nickname did the author get named in seventh and eighth grades?
(a) Smurf.
(b) Rat.
(c) Bonk.
(d) Robot.

8. Who wrote Roots?
(a) Alex Haley.
(b) Chester Pierce.
(c) Thomas Dixon.
(d) Francis Galton.

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

10. Who stated, "The blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to whites in the endowments both of body and mind" (27)?
(a) Benjamin Franklin.
(b) George Washington.
(c) Thomas Jefferson.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

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

12. According to Department of Education data, how many times more likely were Black students than White students to be suspended from public schools in the 2013-14 academic school year?
(a) 4 times more likely.
(b) 2 times more likely.
(c) 5 times more likely.
(d) 3 times more likely.

13. What middle name did the author's father choose for the author when he was born?
(a) James.
(b) Conrad.
(c) Ellis.
(d) Henry.

14. When was the term "microaggression" coined?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1960.

15. Where did the author enroll in high school in the ninth grade?
(a) Robert Kennedy High School.
(b) George Roberts High School.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr. High School.
(d) John Browne High School.

Short Answer Questions

1. Wisconsin's strict voter-ID law suppressed approximately how many votes in the 2016 election?

2. Who said in 1965, "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, 'You are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair" (26)?

3. 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)?

4. When did a bipartisan group of White legislators introduce the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, according to the author in Chapter 6?

5. According to the author, how much longer do White Americans live over their Black counterparts?

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