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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. The essay entitled "Black and Blue" takes its name from a song by what African-American musician?
(a) Fats Waller.
(b) Muddy Waters.
(c) James Brown.
(d) Jelly Roll Morton.

2. To which book of the Bible does the OutKast song "Da Art of Storytellin' (Pt. 2)" refer?
(a) Revelations.
(b) Psalms.
(c) Genesis.
(d) Job.

3. When all flags in the United States flew at half staff after the killings at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, which state did not lower its Confederate flag on state-house grounds?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Alabama.

4. From what city did Phillis Wheatley's husband hail?
(a) Providence.
(b) Hartford.
(c) Philadelphia.
(d) Boston.

5. Why was Michael Brown's mother Lesley McSpadden prohibited from coming close to her son's body during the time he lay in the street?
(a) His body was evidence.
(b) Because her husband requested that she not be allowed to see his body.
(c) She was hysterical.
(d) To keep the number of witnesses low.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides Phillis Wheatley, at least how many other slaves did her master own during his lifetime?

2. From the deaths of Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice, how many indictments were handed down?

3. The author of "Where Do We Go from Here?" states that "we must know deep in our bones and in our hearts that if the ancestors survived" what, "we can survive anything" (62)?

4. In a letter from Phillis Wheatley to the artist Obour Tanner, Wheatley relates the death of her mistress, saying that her mistress had treated her less like a "servant" (67) and more like a what?

5. When the author and her friend laugh at the immediate thought of getting one's child out of the country upon his birth, what is NOT named as one of the sources of their laughter?

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