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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Jubilee: "Theories of Time and Space"; "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution"; "Message to My Daughters".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The biography of Phillis Wheatley published in 1834 called Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, was written by a woman who claimed to be a what of Phillis Wheatley's former mistress?
(a) "A kissing cousin" (65).
(b) "An incidental family member" (65).
(c) "A collateral descendant" (65).
(d) "A distant relative" (65).

2. When Kiese Laymon invites his grandmother up to Oxford where he lives at the time, why does she refuse to come?
(a) Because there is a music festival happening in her hometown.
(b) Because she does not like to infringe upon Kiese's privacy.
(c) Because her health is too poor for such a long trip.
(d) Because Kiese is the only black person she knows in Oxford.

3. When the author of "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution" paraphrases Gil Scott-Heron, saying that "the revolution wasn't televised" (202), what does he say it was instead?
(a) It was ignored.
(b) It was cast aside.
(c) It was yelled from the rooftops.
(d) It was live-tweeted.

4. What two adjectives does the author of the "The Weight" use to describe the whiteness of the magazine's offices?
(a) Stark and futuristic.
(b) Serene and sterile.
(c) Blinding and sterile.
(d) Stately and grand.

5. What topic is NOT listed among the issues that the author of "Lonely in America" feels unable to fixate upon in order to dispel her sense of loneliness?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Racism.
(c) Poverty.
(d) The failures of the federal government.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kiese Laymon reports that it "was only after listening to ATLliens" that he realized where he needed to go as a human being and an artist. What did he decide he needed to do?

2. For how many years had The High Bridge been inactive before reopening again just before Emily Raboteau and her family took a walk across it?

3. What emotion does the author of "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution" say his wife "had landed," even "amidst all the despair" (197)?

4. What term did the historians referred to in "Where Do We Go from Here?" use to describe the last reversal of African-American advancement?

5. What song did President Barack Obama sing at the funeral for those killed in the Emanuel Mother Church massacre?

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