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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. When the author sees a police officer, he automatically thinks:
(a) Someone is trying to protect him.
(b) Something is wrong.
(c) Nothing.
(d) He is not at fault.

2. What is "the Yard"?
(a) A strip of green grass near the White House where protesters gather.
(b) A club in downtown Atlanta.
(c) An area near the docks in Virginia where students gather.
(d) A communal green space at Howard University when students gather.

3. Why did the author refrain from comforting his son when Michael Brown's killers were set free?
(a) He feels he pain of grief is an important lesson.
(b) He was busy calling the news station.
(c) He was too sad to move off the couch,
(d) His son locked the bedroom door.

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

5. Where was the memorial service for Prince Jones held?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Arlington Cemetery.
(c) The White House.
(d) Howard University.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sense does the author describe experiencing as he watched television as a child?

3. Whose death reminded the author that his world and his son's were one and the same?

4. According to the author, upon what has America's progress been built?

5. According to the author, what do many of his black contemporaries have in common?

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