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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Re-Enforcement (pages 75-88).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened when the author was stopped by a PG County officer?
(a) He was beaten and handcuffed.
(b) He was taken to jail.
(c) He was shot.
(d) He was detained, then sent on his way without explanation.

2. Whose image does the author see while at a museum?
(a) Malcom X.
(b) Prince Jones.
(c) His father.
(d) Martin Luther King.

3. What essential question does the author pose in his memoir?
(a) How do I live free in this black body?
(b) How can all people groups coexist?
(c) Who am I?
(d) When will America be one?

4. What 1986 event helped solidify the author's view that violence is inevitable?
(a) His father was shot.
(b) He fired his first weapon.
(c) His mother iwa mugged.
(d) A teenage boy pulled a gun.

5. How was the officer who killed Prince Jones dressed?
(a) As an undercover drug dealer.
(b) As a homeless man.
(c) In a patrol uniform.
(d) In plain clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. To where did the author move to in 2001?

2. What poet inspired the author while at Howard University?

3. How does the author describe Malcolm X?

4. What did the author's parents teach him about religion?

5. As a child, what baffled the author about the nonviolent protests of the civil rights moment?

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