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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What "always prevail" in the poem "Nightmares"?
(a) "The rich and powerful."
(b) "The pure at heart."
(c) "Those who R with god."
(d) "The righteous."

2. What is the first line of "The Sun and the Moon"?
(a) "Watched 4 2 long and your brilliance will blind."
(b) "Your ways R similar 2 the rays of the sun."
(c) "Warm 2 many but 2 strong 4 some."
(d) "The eyes of mortal men who threaten u with doom."

3. Shakur concludes "Liberty Needs Glasses" with the lines, "I mean really if anyone really valued life / and cared about the masses / They'd take 'em both 2 ____ / and get 2 pairs of glasses."
(a) "Pen Optical."
(b) "Walmart."
(c) "The Optometrist."
(d) "Sears Optical."

4. What "was a learning phase / Forgotten without a verdict" in "Liberty Needs Glasses"?
(a) The great Chicago fire.
(b) War.
(c) The civil rights movement.
(d) Slavery.

5. In "Nightmares," the poet writes that "It isn't a good feeling when U disobey" what?
(a) "Your Heart."
(b) "Your Soul."
(c) "Your Dreams."
(d) "Your Mother."

Short Answer Questions

1. Shakur writes in "When Ure Hero Falls," "when ure Hero falls so do" what?

2. To whom is "Family Tree" dedicated?

3. To whom did the poet dedicate "When Ure Hero Falls"?

4. What was a system of legal racial segregation enforced by the National Party government of South Africa between 1948 and 1994?

5. Shakur writes in "Family Tree," "I was the tree who grew from" what?

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