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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Lupe, p. 65 to Tyrone, p. 81.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Devon sneak off to when he tells his friends he's going to basketball practice in "Devon Hope"?
(a) A park.
(b) The library.
(c) Church.
(d) The police station.

2. Who wrote the 1937 novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God"?
(a) Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
(b) Zora Neale Hurston.
(c) Taylor Caldwell.
(d) Margaret Mitchell.

3. What is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads?
(a) Jazz.
(b) Blues.
(c) Calypso.
(d) Reggae.

4. What has long been something of an "outsider" art form that exists somewhere outside the mainstream, having been conceived in the 1920s by African-Americans?
(a) Gospel pottery.
(b) Reggae sculpture.
(c) Jazz poetry.
(d) Blues haiku.

5. When was Langston Hughes born?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1894.

Short Answer Questions

1. What friend of Tanisha's does she say is also light-skinned in "Tanisha Scott"?

2. Who does Tyrone describe as "all hopped up about working on Broadway" in "Tyrone Bitting"?

3. Diondra says that she likes drawing portraits in what medium in "Diondra Jordan"?

4. What is the name of Gloria's baby?

5. What refers to a style of jazz characterized by fast tempo, instrumental virtuosity and improvisation based on the combination of harmonic structure and melody?

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