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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Reckoning: "Black and Blue"; "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning"; "Know Your Rights!"; "Composite Pops".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Phillis Wheatley sail to London for a six week period in order to promote her poetry?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1773.
(c) 1832.
(d) 1768.

2. The final line of the poem "Queries of Unrest" references "trying to save them the time of" doing what "to darkness when all they have to do is close their eyes" (100)?
(a) Burying.
(b) Ignoring.
(c) Planting.
(d) Witnessing.

3. In what state did the author's mother in "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" grow up, ensconced in poverty?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Kentucky.

4. What is the title of the widely-circulated comic depicting the significant difference between what a white mother says to her son as he walks out the door, versus what a black mother says to her son as he walks out the door?
(a) Carefree and Panicked.
(b) Black and Blue.
(c) Still Two Americas.
(d) The Goin' Out Blues.

5. From what state does Kevin Young say that his family hails?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Mississippi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What adverb is repeated 14 times within the poem "Queries of Unrest"?

2. Who requested an open coffin for Emmett Till's funeral and granted permission for photographs of his mutilated, lynched body to be taken and published?

3. In his essay "Blacker Than Thou," Kevin Young says that "racism's daily injustices are almost" a what "against it" (112)?

4. How does the author of "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning" characterize the attempt by some white people to amend the language of the Black Lives Matter movement to All Lives Matter?

5. What author does the poem "Queries of Unrest" reference in its dedication?

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