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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea in 1453?
(a) Gomes de Zurara.
(b) Eleanor Holmes.
(c) Carl Linnaeus.
(d) Addison Gayle Jr.

2. Who wrote Men Before Adam in 1655?
(a) Francis Galton.
(b) Thomas Dixon.
(c) Isaac La Peyrere.
(d) Chester Pierce.

3. 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) Virginia.
(b) California.
(c) New York.
(d) Texas.

4. When does the author describe performing in the final round of the Prince William County Martin Luther King Jr. oratorial contest in the Introduction?
(a) September 12, 2003.
(b) June 2, 1998.
(c) January 17, 2000.
(d) March 15, 1995.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many students attended the high school that the author attended?

2. In 2016, what percentage of urban residents in the U.S. reported being victims of violent crimes?

3. 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)?

4. According to the author in Chapter 1, what percentage of Latinx families lived in owner-occupied homes in 2014?

5. How much more likely are African Americans to die of cancer than Whites?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Black Power movement?

2. What are "polygenesis" and "monogenesis"?

3. How are climate change and racist policy relate to one another?

4. What was the Human Genome Project?

5. How is a "biological racist" defined by the author?

6. What does "eugenics" refer to?

7. How is "racial inequity" defined by the author?

8. How does the author define the terms "racist" and "antiracist"?

9. What is meant by the term "microaggression"?

10. What is the "curse theory" regarding racism?

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