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

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

3. Who wrote "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action" in 1965?
(a) Kenneth Clark.
(b) Havelock Ellis.
(c) Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
(d) Oscar Lewis.

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) Common core standards.
(b) Segregated schools.
(c) Integrated schools.
(d) Standardized tests.

5. Where did Ama Mazama earn her doctorate in linguistics?
(a) Oxford.
(b) La Sorbonne.
(c) Yale.
(d) Princeton.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who introduced the term "culture of poverty" (185) in a 1959 ethnography of Mexican families?

2. 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)?

3. 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)?

4. 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)?

5. Who directed the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Common Core State Standards Initiative?

2. How are "space racism" and "space antiracism" defined?

3. How does the author define "queer racism" and "queer antiracism"?

4. What does "PTSS" refer to?

5. What did the author learn when he took a prepratory course for the GRE?

6. What is "intersectionality"?

7. What are the author's views on standardized testing?

8. What does Brown v. Board of Education refer to?

9. What does "gender racism" refer to?

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

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