Black Issues Quiz

Black Issues in Higher Education, August 5, 1999

The Black Issues Quiz offers you an opportunity to test your knowledge on the people, places, issues, and history surrounding the struggle for academic equity. Each question is based on information published in the current or previous editions of Black Issues In Higher Education and is worth 10 points.

A perfect score of 100 grants membership in the prestigious and mythical Phi BIQeta Kappa honors society; a score of 80 to 90 grants membership in the honor society of BIQ Brains;

a score of 60 to 70 grants membership in the society of Not So BIQ Brains; and a score of 50 or below grants membership in the Reading Black Issues Is Fundamental program.

1 Dr. James Madison Nabrit Jr. was the second
African American president of which
university?

A -- Howard University
B -- Morehouse College
C -- North Carolina A&T University
D -- Fisk University

2 In fall 1998, Lani Guinier became a professor
of law at the institution where her father
taught. What is the name of that institution?

A -- Howard University
B -- University of Pennsylvania
C -- University of Texas-Austin
D -- Harvard University

3 Karen Lynn Drake, M.D., one of the doctors
who delivered the McCaughey septuplets,
earned her bachelor's degree from which
institution?

A -- Dillard University
B -- Goucher College
C -- State University of New York-Buffalo
D-- Emory University

4 The Association of American Medical
College's "Project 3000 by 2000," which seeks
to increase the number of underrepresented
minorities at the nation's 125 medical schools,
began in what year?

A -- 1992
B -- 1991
C -- 1990
D -- 1980

5 Between 1986 and 1996, how much money
did historically Black undergraduate institutions
receive from Title III?

A -- $126.9 million
B -- $257.8 million
C -- $867.1 million
D -- $19.1 billion

6 According to the latest U.S. Department of
Education numbers -- as of June 1999 -- the
persistence rates for Black males earning a
degree or transferring is only around 9 percent.
Which group's persistence rate is twice that?

A -- White males and females
B -- Hispanic males and females
C -- Black females
D -- all of the above

7 Of the following states, which one never had a
segregated higher education system?

A -- Ohio
B -- Delaware
C -- Pennsylvania
D -- none of the above

8 According to a 1996 study by Betty Medsger,
former chair of the Department of Journalism
at San Francisco State University, titled Winds
of Change, what percentage of journalism educators
think that journalism educators should have a
doctorate in mass communications?

A -- 17 percent
B -- 34 percent
C -- 5 percent
D -- 25 percent

9 According to The Associated Press, what percentage
of Maryland's Black population who
pursued higher education in 1996 began
their studies at community colleges?

A -- 28 percent
B -- 57 percent
f -- 15 percent
D -- 40 percent

10 According to the 1999 Black Issues special
report, "Top 100 Degree Producers,"
which traditionally White institution
produced the greatest number of African American
baccalaureate degrees, all disciplines combined, in
1996-977

A -- CUNY-City College
B -- Temple University
C -- Chicago State University
D -- Wayne State University

Extra Credit According to Noel Ignatiev, self-proclaimed
"Whiteness abolitionist" and editor of
Race Traitor, "Whiteness has nothing to do with culture
and everything to do with social position.
Without the privileges attached to it, the White race
would not exist, and the White skin would have no
more social significance than --."

A -- big feet
B -- rap music
C -- a game of dominoes
D -- blond hair and blue eyes

Answer: 1-A, 2-D, 3-A, 4-B, 5-C, 6-D, 7-D, 8-C, 9-B, 10-C, Extra Credit-A