Introduction to Black Studies, Fall 2007

1. Sankofa, the film by Haile Gerima, was filmed in the West Indies (Jamaica) and in the castles (known by many as dungeons) of _____.

a. Hollywood

b. North Carolina

c. The slave ship Amistad

d. England

e. Ghana

2. According to Fairchild & Basu’s article, “How Africa Developed the World,” The 400 year period of African enslavement, degradation and dehumanization is referred to by Marimba Ani and Wade Nobles as the African:

a. Enslavement

b. Holocaust

c. Underdevelopment

d. Dehumanization

e. Maafa

3. According to the LA Times article on recent archeological finds in Kenya, modern humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago, and are now referred to as homo sapiens, or “______ man.”

a. handy

b. upright

c. bi-pedal

d. talking

e. knowing

4. Stolen Legacy was written by:

a. Fairchild &Basu

b. Yosef A.A. ben-Jochannan

c. John Henrik Clarke

d. Cheikh Anta Diop

e. George G.M. James

5. According to Stolen Legacy, Greek Philosophy is actually a misnomer, and is better thought of as a complex system of:

a. philosophy

b. humanities

c. physics

d. psychology

e. religion

6. The dictum, “know thyself,” was originated by:

a. Plato

b. Aristotle

c. Socrates

d. Empedocles

e. an unknown Egyptian

7. Cheikh Anta Diop was born in _____ and wrote in ______.

a. North Carolina, English

b. France, French

c. England, English

d. South America, Portuguese

e. Senegal, French

8. The person(s) who took the lead in translating Diop’s work was:

a. Fairchild &Basu

b. Yosef A.A. ben-Jochannan

c. John Henrik Clarke

d. Cheikh Anta Diop

e. George G.M. James

9. Diop’s book, Civilization or Barbarism, was his ______ publication

a. first

b. second

c. twentieth

d. fortieth

e. last

10. The person most responsible for discoveries in “humanistic paleontology,” was:

a. Fairchild &Basu

b. Yosef A.A. ben-Jochannan

c. John Henrik Clarke

d. Cheikh Anta Diop

e. ______________ (write in)