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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Re-Enforcement (pages 75-88).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What surprised the author about the sixteenth and seventeenth century portraits of Africans?
(a) The looked ethnically different from African-Americans.
(b) The appeared regal and serene.
(c) Their facial features had be Anglicized.
(d) They were drawn in a ravenous, lustful, simian manner.

2. Why did the author feel it was unnecessary to forgive the man who killed Prince Jones?
(a) The man needed to forgive himself.
(b) He was dead.
(c) He was merely expressing America's beliefs about black men.
(d) Forgiveness does not bring back the dead.

3. According to the author, some black people justify the destruction of black bodies for the sake of:
(a) Controlling the population.
(b) Fear.
(c) Keeping the police away.
(d) Preservation of order.

4. Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus, according to Coats?
(a) Nzinga.
(b) Wiley.
(c) Medici.
(d) Tolstoy.

5. The author admires Malcolm X because he never:
(a) Gave up.
(b) Lied.
(c) Ran.
(d) Hesitated.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose image does the author see while at a museum?

2. How does the author describe the classroom?

3. What is "the Yard"?

4. How did the author's father react when another boy stole something from the author?

5. How does the author describe Malcolm X?

(see the answer key)

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