The early 70s blaxploitation era featured big hair, stack heels and wah-wah guitar solos. While opinion remains sharply divided over its political merits, the genre offered a showcase for Afro-American actors and influenced the style and attitude of an entire decade. Take the following ten questions to discover if you're bad or bad-ass about blaxploitation.

		"Who's the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks?"
			Coffy (in Coffy)
			Shaft (in Shaft)
			Hercule Poirot (in Death on the Nile)
			Priest (in Superfly)
		What is the correct spelling of Melvin Van Peebles' landmark 1971 picture?
			Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
			Sweet Sweetback's Badasss Song
			Sweet Sweetback's Badarse Song
			Sweeet Sweeetbaack's Baadasssss Ssong
		In 1972, blaxploitation notoriously remade a horror classic. What was the title?
			The Bride of Blackenstein
			An American Werewolf in Harlem
			Blacula
			Yo, Mummy-F**ker
		Which singer-songwriter recorded the epoch-catching soundtrack to Superfly?
			Isaac Hayes
			James Brown
			Vanilla Ice
			Curtis Mayfield
		What is the American Dream as defined by Ron O'Neal in Superfly?
			"Convertible out front, hot-tub out back, and full membership of an integrated golf club. That's the American Dream"
			"Eight-track stereo, colour TV in every room, and you can snort half a piece of dope every day. That's the American Dream"
			"A slave economy, cheap cotton and mass extermination of the indigenous peoples. That's the American Dream"
			"A land where all men are created equal under the eyes of God. That's the American Dream"
		Approximately how many blaxploitation pictures were produced between 1971 and 1975?
			20
			Two
			200
			2000
		Which of these criticisms was NOT commonly levelled at blaxploitation movies?
			They were mainly directed by white men and funded by white studios
			They ghetto-ised the Afro-American film-going market
			Their multi-million dollar budgets triggered spiralling costs for mainstream film production
			They reinforced negative racial stereotypes by portraying black men as pimps and pushers
		What was the name of Keenen Ivory Wayans' blaxploitation spoof from 1988?
			Can You Dig It?
			Hollywood Shuffle
			I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka
			The Scarlet Pimp
		Which acclaimed black actor starred in John Singleton's recent remake of Shaft?
			Denzel Washington
			Laurence Fishburne
			Samuel L Jackson
			Bill Cosby
		"With blaxploitation, the black audience finally gets a chance to see some of their own fantasies acted out. It's about rising out of the mud and kicking ass". Who said it?
			Melvin Van Peebles
			Tipper Gore
			Richard Nixon
			Stokely Carmichael