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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Tapestries of Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can bad men not escape according to "A Song for Myself"?
(a) The police.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Their conscience.
(d) The afterlife.

2. In "A Scholar Looks at an Oak," what happens to the tree's limbs?
(a) They stick straight up.
(b) They burn.
(c) They are chopped up for wood.
(d) They sag.

3. Who is Crispus Attucks?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A theif.
(c) A band.
(d) A martyr in the American Revolution.

4. What sounds does the poet hear in "Rendezvous With America"?
(a) The sounds of industry.
(b) Cats and dogs.
(c) The sounds of revolution.
(d) Bells and whistles.

5. What does Tolson claim in "Dark Symphony" that the black man has less of then white men?
(a) Power.
(b) Greed.
(c) Anger.
(d) Land.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the economist in "A Primer for Today" claim change occurs?

2. How does the narrator of "The Idols of the Tribe" describe the black god?

3. What do the African warriors in "The Idols of the Tribe" do?

4. Why does the scientist in "A Primer for Today" claim change occurs?

5. How long does Tolson say blacks were enslaved in "Andante Sostenuto"?

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