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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

2. Who said, "It is very difficult to find in the South today anything that can be traced directly back to Africa" (106) in 1919?
(a) Isaac La Peyrere.
(b) Gunnar Myrdal.
(c) Robert Park.
(d) Chester Pierce.

3. Where did the author's father attend college?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) Howard University.
(d) Baruch College.

4. Where did the author's family move to in Virginia after leaving New York City?
(a) Richmond.
(b) Charlottesville.
(c) Roanoke.
(d) Manassas.

5. To what college was the author accepted, although he did not attend that school?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) Louisiana State University.
(c) Howard University.
(d) Hampton University.

6. When did a bipartisan group of White legislators introduce the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, according to the author in Chapter 6?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1993.

7. 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) James Cone.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Addison Gayle Jr.
(d) Eleanor Holmes.

8. 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.

9. What case before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized Jim Crow segregation in 1896?
(a) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(b) Powell v. Alabama.
(c) Dred Scott v. Sandford.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

10. Who wrote in The War On Cops, "The core criminal-justice population is the black underclass" (87)?
(a) Heather Mac Donald.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Isaac La Peyrere.
(d) Chester Pierce.

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

12. How much more likely are African Americans to die of cancer than Whites?
(a) 15%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 35%.

13. What percentage of the U.S. prison population in 2016 was comprised of Black and Latinx people?
(a) 56%.
(b) 67%.
(c) 23%.
(d) 72%.

14. Who signed the Immigration Act of 1924 into law?
(a) Isaac La Peyrere.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Calvin Coolidge.

15. When did the author's father join Floyd H. Flake's ministerial staff?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1989.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did President Bill Clinton state, "Blacks must understand and acknowledge the roots of White fear in America" (86)?

2. In 2015, what percentage of people killed by police were Black, according to the author in Chapter 6?

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

4. Who wrote Native Son?

5. 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)?

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