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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name did Kiese Laymon call his grandmother?
(a) Granny.
(b) Mama.
(c) Grandmama.
(d) Gran.

2. What musician does Kevin Young name as the most prominent example of a white person living as a black person?
(a) Little Richard.
(b) Johnny Otis.
(c) Rufus Wainwright.
(d) Bobby Darin.

3. Kevin Young begins his essay "Blacker Than Thou" by discussing which movie in which Steve Martin plays the lead role?
(a) The Jerk.
(b) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
(c) The Pink Panther.
(d) The Three Amigos.

4. What is the term used for a person's ability to be regarded as belonging to a different race, culture, or group different from their own?
(a) Slinging.
(b) Joining.
(c) Passing.
(d) Tracking.

5. What does Emily Raboteau say had been the primary goal of the perpetrator of the previous week's tragedy on the day her family walks over The High Bridge?
(a) Driving black people back into segregation.
(b) Making a statement about bullying.
(c) Igniting a race war.
(d) Getting the police to shoot him.

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to Andre 3000, who is the other member of OutKast?

2. In what state did Kiese Laymon's grandmother live and work?

3. What two qualities of his grandmother's does Kiese Laymon say he did not understand or feel inspired by until he heard his first OutKast album?

4. When Kevin Young writes that being black is not a paid position, to what type of position does he liken it instead?

5. In order to get away from the site of the murder of her son, Tamir Rice, Samaria Rice moved out of her Cleveland home and into what type of dwelling?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is People's Justice and what is the organization's goal?

2. How is paradox employed within the poem "Queries of Unrest" and to what effect?

3. What two categories does Kevin Young say white thinking or acting out about being black almost always fall into and what example does he give for each category he names?

4. What does Kevin Young write is one of the best things about being black?

5. What distinction does Kiese Laymon make between "stank" and "freshness" (118) in his essay "Da Art of Storytellin' (A Prequel)"?

6. How is repetition employed within the poem "Queries of Unrest" and to what effect?

7. Why does Kevin Young insert "[name withheld]" rather than naming the killer responsible for the murders in Charleston?

8. What details does Kiese Laymon use in order to depict his grandmother's identity to the reader?

9. What event does the author of "Composite Pops" name as the one that taught him that he must be able to save himself?

10. What does the author of "Composite Pops" say that a boy must do if he is "not blessed with a father or gifted with a dynamic stand-in" (180)?

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