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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. What 1986 event helped solidify the author's view that violence is inevitable?
(a) His mother iwa mugged.
(b) His father was shot.
(c) He fired his first weapon.
(d) A teenage boy pulled a gun.

2. Where is Howard University located?
(a) Baltimore, MD.
(b) Hampton, VA.
(c) Atlanta, GA.
(d) Washington, D.C.

3. According to the author, when Lincoln spoke of the "government of the people," to whom was he addressing?
(a) American men.
(b) All Americans.
(c) White Americans.
(d) The wealthy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus, according to Coats?

4. According to the author, how does racism affect the body?

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

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