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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. What percentage of Black children born into single-parent homes did Charles Murray claim we had reached in 1994?
(a) 68%.
(b) 82%.
(c) 23%.
(d) 76%.

2. Who wrote the 2005 book Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome?
(a) Jason Riley.
(b) Joy DeGruy.
(c) Edward Byron Reuter.
(d) Eric Holder.

3. 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.

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

5. Who wrote Dark Ghetto?
(a) Oscar Lewis.
(b) E. Franklin Frazier.
(c) Kenneth Clark.
(d) Philomena Essed.

Short Answer Questions

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

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)?

3. Who wrote The Color Purple?

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

5. When was Uncle Tom's Cabin published?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does "PTSS" refer to?

2. What is the Common Core State Standards Initiative?

3. How does Ibram X. Kendi define "powerless defense"?

4. Why did the student-leaders at FAMU direct a silent march in November of 2000?

5. What was the No Child Left Behind Act?

6. What is "intersectionality"?

7. What does "Black Lives Matter" refer to?

8. What is a "class racist"?

9. What does "gender racism" refer to?

10. Where did the author move when he began his studies at Temple University? Why?

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