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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) 2 times more likely.
(b) 4 times more likely.
(c) 5 times more likely.
(d) 3 times more likely.

3. 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) 1902.
(c) 1925.
(d) 1917.

4. 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)?
(a) Isaac La Peyrere.
(b) Chester Pierce.
(c) Benjamin Tillman.
(d) Robert Park.

5. What is the author's current middle name?
(a) Xalen.
(b) Xolani.
(c) Xavier.
(d) Xanbi.

6. According to the author in Chapter 1, what percentage of Latinx families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?
(a) 71%.
(b) 52%.
(c) 45%.
(d) 41%.

7. 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)?
(a) Lyndon B. Johnson.
(b) James Cone.
(c) W.E.B. Du Bois.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

8. On what date did President Bill Clinton state, "Blacks must understand and acknowledge the roots of White fear in America" (86)?
(a) September 5, 2018.
(b) October 16, 1995.
(c) June 3, 1997.
(d) July 30, 1992.

9. Who wrote the 2014 book A Troublesome Inheritance?
(a) Robert Park.
(b) Nicholas Wade.
(c) Chester Pierce.
(d) Francis Galton.

10. 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) Chester Pierce.
(c) Gunnar Myrdal.
(d) Robert Park.

11. What term is defined in Chapter 1 as: "when two or more racial groups are not standing on approximately equal footing" (24)?
(a) Cultural racism.
(b) Racial paucity.
(c) Racial inequity.
(d) Bodily racism.

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

13. When did the author's mother celebrate her 31st birthday?
(a) September 12, 1980.
(b) March 15, 1995.
(c) June 2, 1998.
(d) June 24, 1982.

14. From where did the author's maternal grandparents move to New York?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Georgia.

15. Who coined the term "Ebonics"?
(a) Chester Pierce.
(b) Robert Park.
(c) Isaac La Peyrere.
(d) Robert Williams.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately what percentage of the U.S. population does the author assert Black people comprise?

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

3. Who warned in 1995, "Most inner-city children grow up surrounded by teenagers and adults who are themselves deviant, delinquent or criminal. A new generation of street criminals is upon us--the youngest, biggest and baddest generation any society has ever known" (94)?

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

5. Who wrote Black Theology and Black Power in 1969?

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