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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Peter Brown write a book that leaned on his human hair collection to classify hair and stated, "The hair of the white man is more perfect than that of the Negro" (141)?
(a) 1779.
(b) 1895.
(c) 1850.
(d) 1865.

2. When was the term "colorism" coined?
(a) 1983.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1969.

3. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
(a) Carl C. Brigham.
(b) Charles Carroll.
(c) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

4. Who popularized the term "homosexual" in Studies in the Psychology of Sex in 1897?
(a) Kenneth Clark.
(b) Carl C. Brigham.
(c) Havelock Ellis.
(d) Philomena Essed.

5. Who wrote The Mulatto in the United States in 1918?
(a) Carl C. Brigham.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Charles Carroll.
(d) Gomes de Zurara.

6. When was Message to the Blackman in America written?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1970.

7. Who wrote of the mulatto or biracial person that he is "a degenerate, unnatural offspring, doomed by nature to work out its own destruction" (141)?
(a) Charles Carroll.
(b) Josiah Nott.
(c) Edward Byron Reuter.
(d) Eric Holder.

8. Who wrote A Study of American Intelligence?
(a) Jason Riley.
(b) Carl C. Brigham.
(c) Edward Byron Reuter.
(d) Eric Holder.

9. When was the National Black Feminist Organization formed?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1999.

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

11. When did revolutionaries eliminate capitalism in Cuba?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1962.

12. What seminal work did Molefi Kete Asante publish in 1980?
(a) Afrocentricity.
(b) Rush.
(c) Beyond the Melting Point.
(d) The Color Purple.

13. In the presidential election in 2000, how many ballots were invalidated by Florida election officials?
(a) 134,253.
(b) 99,353.
(c) 179,855.
(d) 234,522.

14. Who wrote The Conscience of the Conservative in 1960?
(a) E. Franklin Frazier.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) Barry Goldwater.
(d) Oscar Lewis.

15. What Washington, D.C. prosecutor asked at an MLK birthday celebration in 1995, "Did Martin Luther King successfully fight the likes of Bull Connor so that we could ultimately lose the struggle for civil rights to misguided or malicious members of our own race" (113)?
(a) Nicholas Wade.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Jamie Johnson.
(d) Eric Holder.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who argued in 1773, "All the vices which are charged upon the Negroes in the southern colonies and the West-Indies, such as Idleness, Treachery, Theft, and the like, are the genuine offspring of slavery" (117)?

2. What Heritage Foundation president wrote in 2018, "Being black and the daughter of a former welfare recipient, I know firsthand the unintended harm welfare has caused" (187)?

3. Who wrote The Plantation Negro as a Freeman?

4. Who wrote The Negro a Beast?

5. What was the Black poverty rate in 2017, according to the author in Chapter 12?

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