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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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)?
(a) Eric Holder.
(b) Benjamin Rush.
(c) Jason Riley.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

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

4. Who said in 1995, "It isn't racist for Whites to say they don't understand why people put up with gangs on the corner or in the projects or with drugs being sold in the schools or in the open" (113)?
(a) Eric Holder.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Bill Clinton.
(d) Reverend Jamie Johnson.

5. Who was the author's friend at Temple that he learned was gay?
(a) Wilson.
(b) Weckea.
(c) Gbenga.
(d) Roger.

6. Where is Ama Mazama from originally?
(a) Jamaica.
(b) Guadeloupe.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Haiti.

7. Who directed the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song?
(a) Havelock Ellis.
(b) E. Franklin Frazier.
(c) Kenneth Clark.
(d) Melvin von Peebles.

8. Who said in 2016, "Although black civil rights leaders like to point to a supposedly racist criminal justice system to explain why our prisons house so many black men, it's been obvious for decades that the real culprit is black behavior" (116)?
(a) Eric Holder.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Reverend Jamie Johnson.
(d) Jason Riley.

9. Who wrote Black Bourgeoisie in 1957?
(a) Havelock Ellis.
(b) Kenneth Clark.
(c) E. Franklin Frazier.
(d) Oscar Lewis.

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

11. Who wrote The Negro a Beast?
(a) Edward Byron Reuter.
(b) Charles Carroll.
(c) Eric Holder.
(d) Carl C. Brigham.

12. When was The Plantation Negro as a Freeman published?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1923.

13. Who wrote The Color Purple?
(a) Alice Walker.
(b) Havelock Ellis.
(c) Kenneth Clark.
(d) Oscar Lewis.

14. In 1930, how much money did segregationist Alabama spend for each White student in public schools?
(a) $23.
(b) $56.
(c) $32.
(d) $37.

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) Eric Holder.
(b) Jamie Johnson.
(c) Nicholas Wade.
(d) Edward Byron Reuter.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Uncle Tom's Cabin published?

2. 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)?

3. To what Philadelphia neighborhood did the author move in August of 2005?

4. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

5. Who wrote the 2005 book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome?

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