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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the author attend fourth through sixth grades in school?
(a) St. Joseph's Parish Day School.
(b) John Brown Middle School.
(c) St. Edward's Parish Day School.
(d) Peake Middle School.

2. What are the names of the author's parents?
(a) Carol and Larry.
(b) Emily and Jack.
(c) Amy and James.
(d) Rhonda and Sam.

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

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

5. The author states in Chapter 6 that in recent years, the University of Chicago Crime Lab worked with the One Summer Chicago Plus jobs program and found what percent "reduction in violent-crime arrests for Black youths who worked eight-week-long part-time summer jobs, compared with a control group of teens who did not" (98)?
(a) 43%.
(b) 34%.
(c) 7.4%.
(d) 56%.

6. Where did the author perform in the final round of the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorial contest described in the Introduction?
(a) Texas.
(b) California.
(c) New York.
(d) Virginia.

7. Who wrote in 1978, "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently" (26)?
(a) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(b) Addison Gayle Jr.
(c) Harry Blackmun.
(d) James Cone.

8. When did Alexander Crummell found the first formal Black intellectual society?
(a) 1856.
(b) 1897.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1913.

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

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

11. Who wrote The Souls of Black Folk in 1903?
(a) Addison Gayle Jr.
(b) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(c) Gomes de Zurara.
(d) Eleanor Holmes.

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

13. By how many votes did Donald Trump win the state of Wisconsin in the 2016 election?
(a) 45,353.
(b) 22,748.
(c) 29,245.
(d) 14,634.

14. When was the film Hoop Dreams released?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1994.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1997.

15. When was The Origin of Species published?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1915.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What percentatge of Black families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?

3. Who was cursed by Noah in the Bible because his father viewed Noah in his nakedness?

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

5. What was the Latinx immigrant population in the U.S. in 2000?

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