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

2. What excuse did the man on page 112 give for shooting the boy in the car?
(a) He claimed the boy was trying to run him over with the car.
(b) He claimed to have seen a shotgun in the car.
(c) He said he was angry.
(d) He claimed the gun went off by accident.

3. Why does the author apologize to his son?
(a) For being unable to save him from the reality of racism and violence in the world.
(b) For speaking so negatively about the world.
(c) For not providing him with a better education.
(d) For rambling on about the past.

4. What does the author tell his son about responsibility?
(a) Responsibility comes with a price.
(b) He is responsible for his body and the bodies of others.
(c) He is only responsible for himself.
(d) He is responsible for his family.

5. Why does the author feel the interview at the beginning of his memoir was a failure?
(a) No one would comment on his new book.
(b) The interview was cut short.
(c) He was insulted by a caller to the radio station.
(d) The interviewer discussed hope for racial peace and equality.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are racism and race linked?

2. Whose death reminded the author that his world and his son's were one and the same?

3. Whom does the author describe as his "wedding ring"?

4. Why did the author want to return to Paris with his son?

5. Why did the author feel it was unnecessary to forgive the man who killed Prince Jones?

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