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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Rose By Any Other Name (pages 47-71).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What view does the author have of the afterlife?
(a) It is his only comfort.
(b) It is an unknown.
(c) It is a vital part of the fabric of the human psyche.
(d) It does not exist.

3. Where did the author meet the mother of his son?
(a) Baltimore.
(b) New York.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) The Mecca.

4. How did the author and his friends illegally obtain alcohol when they were underage?
(a) They would steal it from their parents.
(b) They would make corn liquor at home in the bathtub.
(c) They would steal it from the liquor store.
(d) There were men of legal drinking age who would purchase it for them for a fee.

5. Why did the author refrain from comforting his son when Michael Brown's killers were set free?
(a) His son locked the bedroom door.
(b) He was too sad to move off the couch,
(c) He feels he pain of grief is an important lesson.
(d) He was busy calling the news station.

Short Answer Questions

1. What realization does the author have about his university education?

2. What surprised the author about the sixteenth and seventeenth century portraits of Africans?

3. What realization did the author make about death in the sixth grade?

4. What bothers the author about artists like Michael Jackson?

5. Where is Howard University located?

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