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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dream (pages 108-132).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What essential question does the author pose in his memoir?
(a) How can all people groups coexist?
(b) How do I live free in this black body?
(c) Who am I?
(d) When will America be one?

2. Which Howard University student was shot by a PG County officer shortly after the author's encounter with the police?
(a) Trayvon Martin.
(b) The author's wife.
(c) The girl with the long dreadlocks.
(d) Prince Jones.

3. What does the author imagine white parents might tell their children?
(a) Be twice as fearful.
(b) Be twice as successful.
(c) Take twice as much.
(d) Be twice as nice.

4. Whom does the author describe as "the God I never had"?
(a) His soul.
(b) His mother.
(c) His son.
(d) His wife.

5. What field did the author pursue after he left Howard University?
(a) Archaeology.
(b) Bookselling.
(c) Music.
(d) Journalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event did the author witness on September 11, 2001?

2. What does the author describe as the "enemy of art, courageous thinking and honest writing"?

3. Why does the author feel the interview at the beginning of his memoir was a failure?

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

5. What does the author remember about Manhattan?

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