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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what Philadelphia neighborhood did the author move in August of 2005?
(a) Chinatown.
(b) Hunting Park.
(c) Port Richmond.
(d) Fishtown.

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

3. What is the average U.S. life expectancy of a transgender woman of color, according to the author in Chapter 15?
(a) 55.
(b) 45.
(c) 35.
(d) 65.

4. The author asserts in Chapter 8 that the use of what "to measure aptitude and intelligent is one of the most effective racist policies ever devised to degrade Black minds and legally exclude Black bodies" (124)?
(a) Segregated schools.
(b) Standardized tests.
(c) Integrated schools.
(d) Common core standards.

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

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

7. 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.

8. What are the offspring of the conjoined twins of racism and capitalism that threaten to kill them and all of us off, according to the author in Chapter 12?
(a) Inequality, war, and climate change.
(b) Assimilation and segregation.
(c) Poverty and hatred.
(d) Sexism, homophobia, and war.

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

10. Who wrote The Plantation Negro as a Freeman?
(a) Alexander Bruce.
(b) Edward Byron Reuter.
(c) Eric Holder.
(d) Jason Riley.

11. When did Harriet Tubman lead the Combahee River slave raid?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1863.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1875.

12. Who stated, "America's Black community ... has turned America's major cities into slums because of laziness, drug use, and sexual promiscuity" (115)?
(a) Edward Byron Reuter.
(b) Gomes de Zurara.
(c) Eric Holder.
(d) Reverend Jamie Johnson.

13. What novelist cointed the term "colorism"?
(a) Carl C. Brigham.
(b) Alice Walker.
(c) Edward Byron Reuter.
(d) Eric Holder.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Mark of Oppression: A Psychosocial Study of the American Negro?

2. Where did Ama Mazama earn her doctorate in linguistics?

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

4. Who wrote Sexual Racism: The Emotional Barrier to an Integrated Society?

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

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