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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Armored Against Fear (pages 135-152).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who accompanied Dr. Jones to the hospital the night Prince Jones was shot?
(a) A police officer.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Her mother.

2. According to Solzhenitsyn, "To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is _____ " what?
(a) Compulsory.
(b) Good.
(c) Required.
(d) Necessary.

3. What does the author recall always having, even when times were hard?
(a) Money.
(b) Family and friends.
(c) Power.
(d) Intelligence.

4. According to the author, what do many of his black contemporaries have in common?
(a) They are proud of their heritage.
(b) They are searching for a better future.
(c) They are unhappy with their lives.
(d) They have never known their fathers.

5. According to the author, slavery transfigured black bodies into:
(a) Hollow shells of former men.
(b) Animals.
(c) Sugar, tobacco, cotton and gold.
(d) Beasts of burden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author imagine white parents might tell their children?

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

3. How did the Internet affect the author's writing?

4. What difference does the author see between his childhood and that of his son?

5. What is the final piece of advice the author offers his son?

(see the answer key)

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