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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Growing Up Black (pages 21-47).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Queen Nzinga address the social insult of the Dutch ambassador?
(a) She stabbed the ambassador.
(b) She sat on the ambassador's knee.
(c) She ordered one of her advisers to become a human chair.
(d) She stood on the table.

2. How old is the author's son at the time the memoir is written?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) 15.
(d) 21.

3. How did the author's father react when another boy stole something from the author?
(a) His father confronted the thief.
(b) His father beat him.
(c) His father called the police.
(d) His father confronted the thief's grandfather.

4. According to the author, upon what has America's progress been built?
(a) Hard work.
(b) Violence.
(c) Education.
(d) Wealth.

5. According to the author, what is the purpose of defining races of people?
(a) To instill a sense of cultural pride.
(b) To form a hierarchy in society.
(c) To define culture.
(d) To identify people groups.

Short Answer Questions

1. What view does the author have of the afterlife?

2. How did the author spend most of his time at The Mecca?

3. How did the author's father react when the author threatened his 9th grade teacher?

4. According to the author, who controls the streets of Baltimore?

5. The author admires Malcolm X because he never:

(see the answer key)

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