Race and Ethnicity in America Exam Practice Tests
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This course explores the historical and contemporary experiences of diverse racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Through interdisciplinary perspectives, students examine the social, political, and economic forces that have shaped concepts of race and ethnicity, and their impact on American society. Key themes include migration, citizenship, identity formation, systemic inequality, and resistance movements. The course draws on readings from sociology, history, literature, and cultural studies to provide a comprehensive understanding of how race and ethnicity continue to influence the American experience.
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African American Odyssey The Combined Volume 5th Edition by Darlene Clark Hine
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Chapter 1: Africa
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Q1) Most of the northern third of the African continent is made up of the ___________ Desert.
Answer: Sahara
Q2) What distinguished the Kingdom of Kongo from many other African kingdoms?
A) Mani Kongo Nzinga Knuwu began a tradition of welcoming early Portuguese missions.
B) The Kongo had no access to water travel.
C) The Kongo launched a holy war against Christian missionaries.
D) The Kongo maintained gender equality.
Answer: A
Q3) Which of the following are generally regarded as the earliest human civilizations?
A) Mexico and China
B) Egypt and Mesopotamia
C) China and Africa
D) Mesopotamia and China
Answer: B
Q4) The Portuguese referred to the area around the Congo River as ____________.
Answer: Angola
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Chapter 2: Middle Passage
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Q1) Which of the following was a difference between the lives and beliefs of the ships' crew and its human cargo?
A) Crew and the slaves shared the same diet.
B) The crews were far healthier, and immune from the epidemics of disease that swept the slave ships.
C) The crews of ships rarely feared violence against their lives.
D) African medicine was far more holistic than European medicine, and stressed the interconnectedness of mind, spirit and body.
Answer: D
Q2) How did the early Europeans usually obtain their supply of slaves?
A) They raided along the coast of Africa, forcibly capturing large families.
B) Arabs brought slaves up to the coastal cities in Europe, and they were purchased there.
C) Europeans captured large land areas through warfare, and subjugated entire groups of people into slavery.
D) They obtained their slaves through trade with native African tribes.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Black People in Colonial North America
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Q1) How was slavery in the low country different from slavery in the Chesapeake?
A) Slavery was much more lenient, and kept the characteristics of indentured servitude through the American Revolution.
B) African slaves outnumbered European whites, most of whom arrived from Barbados.
C) The low country never developed a cash crop like the Chesapeake did.
D) Christian slaves tended to have many more rights than those who maintained an indigenous religion.
Answer: B
Q2) What is not generally a characteristic of chattel slavery, which began to develop in the British colonies in the 1660s?
A) Slaves lost many of their legal rights, although they could still be married in the eyes of the law.
B) The condition of the mother dictated the condition of the child.
C) Slaves could not own property, vote, or bear arms.
D) Being a Christian had no effect on a slave's status.
Answer: A
Q3) The term chattel means _________________.
Answer: personal property
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Chapter 4: Rising Expectations: African Americans and the
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Q1) How did Phillis Wheatley distinguish herself?
A) as the first black woman to graduate from a British college
B) as the first woman to die at the Battle of Lexington
C) as a poet
D) as the first black abolitionist in the colonies
Q2) Who were the major combatants during the French and Indian War?
A) the French versus the Indians
B) Great Britain versus England
C) France and their Indian allies versus the Dutch
D) the French and their Indian allies versus the British, their Indian allies, and the colonists
Q3) How did black women assist in the Patriot cause?
A) Black women joined their husbands in army camps, and defied the British in numerous ways.
B) Black women frequently went into battle with the men.
C) Black women wrote many pamphlets, spoke in public for the Patriot cause, and raised large amounts of money for black soldiers.
D) Because they were seen as physically and mentally weaker, women had no role in the war effort.
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Q1) Why was the collapse of slavery different in New England versus the Middle States?
A) African Americans in New England were under much tighter control, and could not exercise any rights.
B) More white people owned slaves in New England, because of all the industry there.
C) Religious and political beliefs influenced whites into accepting the demise of slavery in New England more quickly.
D) The Middle States had more economic interest in slavery than New England did.
Q2) What were the earliest separate institutions formed?
A) churches
B) newspapers
C) civil rights organizations
D) mutual aid societies
Q3) What was the most common form of resistance to slavery among blacks?
A) physical violence against their white masters
B) poisoning of whites by slave cooks
C) day-to-day resistance and even escape
D) preaching against the evils of slavery on urban street corners
Q4) What was the name of the first anti-slavery society in the world?
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Chapter 6: Life in the Cotton Kingdom
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Q1) Which state experienced the highest growth rate in slaves between 1820 and 1860?
A) Alabama
B) Mississippi
C) Louisiana
D) Virginia
Q2) What does the example of Celia and Robert Newsom in 1855 tell us about sexual exploitation of black women?
A) The court refused to accept that Celia had a right to defend herself from rape.
B) White men could be held accountable for the murder of their slaves, especially female slaves.
C) Sexual exploitation rarely happened, since generally the slave women instigated the matter.
D) Sometimes sexual relationships between white men and black women could be consensual.
Q3) Which crop employed the largest number of slaves on a single plantation?
A) cotton
B) rice
C) indigo
D) silk
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Chapter 7: Free Black People in Antebellum America
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Q1) Which African-American singer earned the nickname "The Black Swan"?
Q2) Why was it difficult for blacks to find jobs in the North after 1820?
A) There were very few jobs in the North after 1820, due to an economic depression.
B) White immigration increased, and employers preferred to hire whites.
C) Racism began in the North only after 1820.
D) .Industry, especially textiles, began to shift to the south.
Q3) How were black and white voluntary associations similar during the antebellum period?
A) Black and white associations were very different in tactics and ideas.
B) They both drew on a reform spirit of the time, focusing on many of the same issues and concerns.
C) Blacks focused solely on abolishing slavery.
D) Black women were rarely able to join voluntary associations, but white women could join if they wanted.
Q4) What black institution continued to be the center of black communities?
Q5) Who was the first African American to graduate from medical school?
Q6) What was the term used to describe segregated facilities?
Q7) What party brought about the repeal of Ohio's black laws?
Q8) What trend doomed the openly elitist Federalists party?
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Chapter 8: Opposition to Slavery
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Q1) What was a result of Vesey's Conspiracy?
A) Blacks demonstrated they could stand united against whites.
B) South Carolina decided to decrease some restrictions on slaves in cities, since they did not participate.
C) The state legislature passed laws forbidding slaves to read, banning their assembly, and jailing black sailors while their ships were docked.
D) Vesey was deported to Haiti, with several of his conspirators.
Q2) Which of the following is true about the Society for the Promotion of the Abolition of Slavery?
A) It was the first antislavery society in the North.
B) It was the first antislavery society in the South.
C) It attracted non-Quaker members.
D) It attracted well over one million members across the United States.
Q3) What famous antislavery newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison begin publishing in 1831?
Q4) What is a term used for people who favored getting rid of slavery throughout the country?
Q5) Other than Africa, where did some African Americans choose to migrate?
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Chapter 9: Let Your Motto Be Resistance
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Q1) Examine Map 9-2. What does the map indicate about travel for blacks in the South prior to the Civil War? (Answer, page 227) [Conceptual]
49? 50. Who was Mary Ann Shadd Cary?
A) a woman who promoted racial integration and black migration to Canada
B) a woman who helped bring down the underground railroad, through exposing members
C) the wife of an important Congressman who helped fund the railroad
D) a journalist, and former slave, who reported on the escapees
Q2) Why did some black abolitionists become increasingly militant during the 1840s?
A) They were inspired by various slave rebellions and mutinies on ships.
B) They were unable to organize in any way because of racism.
C) They were extremely angry about whites continuing to subordinate women.
D) Historians do not yet understand this phenomenon.
Q3) How did Douglass differ from his colleagues who favored black nationalism?
A) He did not differ. Douglass also supported black nationalism and migration to Africa.
B) Only by degrees. Douglass approved of a separate black nation, but within America.
C) Douglass believed that blacks would eventually blend into American society.
D) None of these are correct.
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Q1) How did black people react to Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate?
A) They reacted with nearly universal support, as they knew he was going to abolish slavery.
B) Black people could not vote and therefore had no opinion about his candidacy.
C) Elite blacks favored him, since he seemed very intellectual, while poor blacks opposed him.
D) They reacted with either opposition or very reluctant support. They were dismayed by his racism and apparent support for slavery where it already existed.
Q2) How did some northern communities react to fugitive slave laws prior to 1850?
A) They tried to comply with the laws entirely.
B) They passed personal liberty laws, making it illegal for law enforcement officials to capture runaways.
C) They declared the laws null and void.
D) They decided to fire on Fort Sumter, and start the Civil War.
Q3) Who supported John Brown's efforts financially?
A) Most white northerners donated some money.
B) a few wealthy abolitionist and black leaders
C) a few southerners who were sick of the troubles over slavery
D) a large portion of the African American "Forty Niners"
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Chapter 11: Liberation: African Americans and the Civil War
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Q1) What is not true about the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation on the South?
A) It caused southerners in rebellious areas to free their slaves.
B) It stopped chances for an alliance between the Confederacy and either Britain or France.
C) More slaves began to run away, dramatically affecting the South's war effort and morale.
D) It weakened the South's ability to fight the war.
Q2) What did the First Confiscation Act of 1861 do?
A) It allowed the North to seize only those slaves who were used to benefit the Confederacy.
B) It allowed the South to confiscate blacks in service to the Union.
C) It allowed the North to confiscate all slaves in all areas of the Confederacy.
D) It allowed both sides to confiscate land of their enemies.
Q3) Which of the following slave states was never a member of the Confederacy?
A) Virginia
B) Delaware
C) Tennessee
D) North Carolina
Q4) Which black unit was involved in the assault on Battery Wagner in July of 1863?
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Chapter 12: The Meaning of Freedom: the Promise of Reconstruction
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Q1) What did the Joint Committee on Reconstruction find?
A) Blacks were grossly inferior to whites, and should have been left in slavery.
B) Southern states were carrying out reconstruction goals to the best of their ability.
C) Blacks were being treated very poorly, and Southern whites didn't seem to realize they had lost the war.
D) Blacks were being treated poorly, but with additional education they should be able to gain political rights for themselves.
Q2) What was the significance of the Election of 1866?
A) Republicans gained two-thirds majorities in both the House and Senate. They could, therefore, override any presidential veto.
B) Republicans gained simple majorities in both the House and Senate. They could, therefore, override any presidential veto.
C) Democrats gained strength, since Americans saw the impeachment attempt of the president as a political sham.
D) A new, independent party, the National Democrats, gained significant amounts of power through the black vote.
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Chapter 13: The Meaning of Freedom: the Failure of Reconstruction,
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Q1) What was the purpose of "stay laws"?
A) They attempted to force blacks to stay in one place, rather than migrate elsewhere.
B) They tried to assist blacks by prohibiting state authorities from taking property.
C) They had the effect of reducing blacks' political power in the state of Tennessee.
D) All of these answers are correct.
Q2) How did class and social status divide blacks during Reconstruction?
A) Leaders who had been slaves were often worried about land and labor issues.
B) Leaders who had been free were often worried about civil rights issues.
C) Leaders who had been slaves were often worried about land and labor issues, and leaders who had been free were often worried about civil rights issues.
D) This is a myth: leaders were completely united about how to deal with education during Reconstruction.
Q3) Where was the KKK founded?
Q4) ______________ College was the first historically black state university, founded in 1872.
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Chapter 14: White Supremacy Triumphant: African
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Q1) How did blacks not react to segregation laws regarding streetcars?
A) They attempted to form separate transportation companies.
B) They held boycotts and sit-ins in cities across the South.
C) They walked rather than rode the cars, seriously hurting the streetcar companies economically.
D) Streetcar segregation was the one public transportation that blacks accepted as needing to be segregated, because of the high level of violence surrounding it.
Q2) How did the railroad companies feel about segregation?
A) They opposed the idea, mainly because they wanted equal access for blacks.
B) They opposed the idea, because they wanted the additional money from blacks buying first class tickets.
C) They opposed the idea, because they did not want to have the added expense of maintaining separate cars.
D) Railroad companies were strongly behind segregation.
Q3) What system did white southerners devise for convicts, which provided very cheap (and mostly black) labor for businessmen?
Q4) What was the name of the case that upheld Louisiana's segregation laws?
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Chapter 15: Black Southerners Challenge White Supremacy
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Q1) What "first" occurred with the Spanish-American War for blacks?
A) Blacks were involved in combat.
B) Black soldiers reached ranks above private.
C) A few all-black units were commanded by black men.
D) Black women also served with the men.
Q2) What issues did some blacks and whites bring up to criticize the Spanish-American War?
A) It was merely a way for Americans to kill off black Americans.
B) The war was far too costly, and would hurt America's economy..
C) Some saw it merely as an attempt to extend subjugation of darker races and Jim Crow laws outside America's borders.
D) That the war dragged on far too long.
Q3) Which of the following is true about black ministers?
A) They often presented thoughtful, deliberate sermons.
B) They were very rarely female.
C) They usually had at least a high school education.
D) They were generally not very influential in the general community.
Q4) Who was Hampton Institute's most famous and prized student?
Q5) Who is regarded as the "father of the blues"?
Q6) Who began the push to eliminate black men from major league baseball?
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Chapter 16: Conciliation, Agitation, and Migration: African
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Q1) What was true about the NAACP publication, The Crisis?
A) It was generally a very conservative publication, stressing acceptance of current racial conditions.
B) Edited by Du Bois, it generally contained strident language denouncing racism and demanding that blacks stand up for their rights.
C) It stressed blacks' need to obtain education in farming techniques.
D) The Crisis was very short lived, since it was very radical, and was driven out of business by the government.
Q2) How did Du Bois's background shape his views, just as Washington's shaped his?
A) Du Bois was born in the South, but moved North, and realized what a difference there was between the two.
B) Du Bois was born free in the North, encountered little racism during his early years, and was incredibly intelligent and allowed to obtain a superior education.
C) Du Bois and Washington had very similar political views and ideas.
D) Du Bois was from a slave family with a history of provoking uprisings. He was, therefore, very sympathetic to the use of violence.
Q3) What was the motto of the NACW?
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Chapter 17: African Americans and the 1920s
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Q1) What author influenced Garvey's early ideas about changing the situation of blacks?
A) W. E. B. Du Bois
B) Teddy Roosevelt
C) Frederick Douglass
D) Booker T. Washington
Q2) What was not a popular reaction to the film, Birth of a Nation?
A) The NAACP protested it for stereotyping blacks.
B) It was enormously popular among American audiences.
C) The film occasionally incited white violence against blacks.
D) The film encouraged students to study the American Revolution.
Q3) How did Garvey react to the KKK?
A) He praised the organization as being the only honest white men in America.
B) He worked to get them imprisoned as murderers and rapists.
C) He filed a court case to try to take their property as compensation for violence committed.
D) He worked with them sometimes, when he thought additional violence would bring him new members.
Q4) What organization was Randolph asked to lead in 1925?
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Q1) How did black unemployment in large cities compare with the national unemployment rate?
A) Black unemployment was lower.
B) Black unemployment was higher.
C) Black unemployment was at the national average.
D) No statistics were kept on black unemployment during the time, since the government did not consider them to be very important.
Q2) What was the "Bronx Slave Market"?
A) an area in New York where white racists tried to re-institute the slave trade
B) an area in New York were black men could go to get jobs, which paid very little
C) an area in New York where white women could very cheaply obtain day help from black women
D) a play by Langston Hughes about the difficulties of black life
Q3) Which of the following is true about the role of black women in the NAACP?
A) Black women were excluded from the NAACP until the 1950s.
B) Because they had no political power, they had very little to do with the organization.
C) Black women often made huge contributions through organizing and fundraising.
D) Black women were only allowed to lead children's branches of the NAACP.
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Chapter 19: Meanings of Freedom: Culture and Society in the 1930s
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Q1) How was gospel music different from earlier spiritual black music?
A) It was very similar, and basically simply copied earlier styles.
B) It was never sung in churches, since most thought it was the "devil's work."
C) It used instruments, including drums, guitars, and horns.
D) It was developed in California, rather than in the Deep South.
Q2) How did Katherine Dunham influence African-American dance?
A) She was an anthropologist, and incorporated African ritual dances into her work.
B) She refused to be influenced by other styles.
C) She opened a dance school for African Americans in New York.
D) She forced dance into more conventional, white-inspired performances.
Q3) What was a main characteristic of Dunham's dance choreography?
A) It was very conservative and often compared to classical ballet.
B) It was frequently filled with sexual movements and innuendo.
C) It was a forerunner of tap dancing.
D) It was quickly adopted by whites across the South.
Q4) Where was the center of the black music world in the 1930s and 1940s?
Q5) What did the development of black culture during the 1930s and 1940s help African Americans counter?
Q6) Who was the leader of the Peace Mission Movement?
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Q1) What was the Abraham Lincoln Battalion?
A) a group of African Americans who enlisted in the British army to fight the Germans before America entered the war
B) a group of African Americans who enlisted to fight in the Spanish Civil War against Franco
C) a civil rights organization, dedicated to fighting segregation
D) a racist group of whites who wanted to turn America back into Lincoln's original vision
Q2) What point did Du Bois and Ralph Bunche agree on regarding Africa?
A) Africa should come under American control for its benefit.
B) Blacks should immediately migrate to Africa to gain more civil and political rights.
C) African nations should be free from colonial control.
D) Africa should serve as a model for race relations in the United States.
Q3) In what direction did Du Bois think the NAACP should focus after World War II?
A) toward economic gains for blacks
B) toward winning independence for African nations and abolishing colonialism
C) toward desegregating the armed forces
D) toward winning rights for black women, and feminism in general
Q4) Who led the Dixiecrat Party revolt in 1948?
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Q1) Who was chosen to lead the new Montgomery Improvement Association?
A) E. D. Nixon
B) Rosa Parks
C) Martin Luther King Jr.
D) Jo Ann Robinson
Q2) What did the case of State of Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada involve?
A) It was about how the Fourteenth Amendment only applied to businesses, and did not protect against discrimination against blacks.
B) It was about how public transportation between different states could not be segregated.
C) It forced states to provide equal facilities to blacks for legal education within their borders.
D) It was about how states could not restrict entry into the parties by race or level of education.
Q3) What tactic did college students begin to employ beginning in 1960?
A) the protest bombing
B) the boycott
C) the musical concert benefit
D) the sit-in
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Q1) How did President Johnson respond to the riots in the summer of 1967?
A) He declared martial law in most large urban areas for the remainder of the summer, and restored the peace.
B) He established a commission to investigate the conflicts, and come up with solutions.
C) He ignored the riots and hoped that they would die down on their own.
D) He began drafting more black men from those areas for the war.
Q2) What effect did the Voting Rights Act have on black voting power outside the South?
A) virtually none-blacks there had been voting and getting significant political power for some time
B) a tremendous effect, as blacks tried to vote to demonstrate new political power and voice
C) a marginal effect, since it really wasn't enforced
D) no effect, since the Voting Rights Act only applied to the South
Q3) Who became the first black mayor of a major American city in 1967?
A) Vernon Jordan of Jackson
B) Richard Daley of New York City
C) Carl Stokes of Cleveland
D) Martin Luther King of Atlanta
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Chapter 23: African Americans at the Millennium
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Q1) What institution continued to be at the center of black life during the late twentieth century?
A) newspapers
B) music, particularly rap
C) churches
D) the NAACP
Q2) What was a culminating event of Farrakhan's leadership of the Nation of Islam?
A) his trip to Mecca
B) his denunciation of Jews
C) the Million Man March
D) his reaction to September 11
Q3) Regarding health around the turn of the twenty-first century,
A) African Americans continue to have lower infant mortality rates.
B) Life expectancy has declined slightly since the 1950s.
C) Although many African Americans are healthier, they often distrust the health-care system.
D) Skin cancer has become a leading problem among African Americans.
Q4) What rap artist emerged to counter the images of women presented by gangsta rap artists?
Q5) For what did Pope John Paul II apologize in 1993?
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Q1) What was the effect of trickle-down economics under Reagan?
A) Middle-class people and lower class people's incomes went up, and more jobs were created.
B) Wealthy people's incomes rose significantly, but unemployment went up.
C) Black people gained in status, especially economically.
D) The United States became the wealthiest industrialized nation in the world.
Q2) Which of the following is not true about black Americans in the Republican Party during the Reagan years?
A) They were carefully cultivated by the party as representatives.
B) Because of their visibility, they often had a substantial amount of power within the party structure.
C) They were a small, well-educated group.
D) There were no conservative black Americans at this time.
Q3) How does the black community feel about the idea of reparations for blacks to compensate for slavery?
A) As with many other issues, opinion is divided over reparations.
B) The black community is solidly behind the idea.
C) The black community is solidly against the idea.
D) Elite blacks seem to favor it, while poor blacks seem to be against it.
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