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1. Which of the following group(s) are most likely to suffer death inflicted by law enforcement?
a. African Americans
b. European Americans
c. Latinx Americans
d. American Indians
e. a and d
2. The concept of "race" is a rooted in biology and can be mapped by DNA.
a. True
b. False
3. Prior to the New Deal reforms of the 1930s and the establishment of the FHA, how much money toward the purchase price would people have to put down on a home ?
a. 10%
b. 12%
c. 50%
d. 5%
4. What type of home mortgage loans were denied to people of color (with African Americans specifically targeted) through redlining?
a. 30 year fixed rate mortgage with a low down payment
b. 5 year variable rate mortgage with a high down payment
c. 15 year mortgage with the interest rate pegged to the LIBOR rate
d. 10 year fixed rate with 80% of the purchase price put down
5. What was the impact of redlining on the net worth of African Americans?
a. It had no impact
b. It put African Americans into higher income brackets
c. It crippled wealth accumulation by African Americans
d. It mostly impacted the poor only
6. What type of housing did the government create for African Americans due to redlining?
a. Housing projects that would be subjected to over-crowding
b. Affordable suburban housing in select cities
c. Condominiums in high-rise buildings
d. Planned communities with affordable leases
8. What system of racism did the modern Civil Rights movement largely work to dismantle?
a. Jim Crow
b. Slavery
c. It had no impact on anything
d. Indentured servitude
9. A "white" person asks someone repeatedly where they are from. The person answers San Diego. He persists and says yeah but where are you from? This "white" person likely believes:
a. The perpetual-foreigner myth of Asian Americans
b. That he is enlightened, educated, and sophisticated
c. That all people are Americans
d. a and b
10. The concept of "race" needs to be rejected in order to:
a. Eliminate the system of racism
b. None of the above