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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does the poet write "nah I leave the cutting up 2 Dize" in "Only 4 The Righteous"?
(a) "Retire."
(b) "Scratch."
(c) "Babies."
(d) "Drugs."

2. In "A River That Flows Forever," the poet writes, "As long as some ____ / The River Flows Forever."
(a) Suffer.
(b) Have pride.
(c) Are angry.
(d) Have love.

3. In the final lines of "My Dearest One!!" Shakur writes, "I prayed and watched the distant stars / and finally" what?
(a) "GOD knew what I wanted.
(b) "My stomach quivers my body shivers."
(c) "U came 2 me!"
(d) "Made u a reality."

4. What name was given to three African American inmates charged with the murder of white prison guard John V. Mills at California's Soledad Prison on January 16, 1970?
(a) The Death Row Triplets.
(b) The Savage Three.
(c) The Blood Brothers.
(d) The Soledad Brothers.

5. What does the poet write the shores of Howard Beach are full of in "How Can We Be Free"?
(a) Litter.
(b) Afrikan corpses.
(c) Sharks.
(d) Jellyfish.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first line of "The Rose That Grew from Concrete" is written in what narrative mode?

2. What does the poet write he lives "like a prisoner" of in the untitled poem in Section 1?

3. What figure cited in "Liberty Needs Glasses" is also known as Geronimo ji-Jaga?

4. What is the first line of "The Sun and the Moon"?

5. "Elizabeth" begins "I remember when U were LOST / and your soul was" what?

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