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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Self-Awareness (pages 88-108).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What concern does the author have about the lessons he is trying to teach his son?
(a) That his son will grow bitter and cynical.
(b) That others will make fun of his son.
(c) That his son will be embarrassed by him.
(d) That others will tell his son it is an unnecessary part of the past.

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

4. When the author sees a police officer, he automatically thinks:
(a) Nothing.
(b) Something is wrong.
(c) Someone is trying to protect him.
(d) He is not at fault.

5. At what age does the author remember witnessing his first street fight?
(a) 18.
(b) 12.
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is "The Dream" that Coats refers to?

2. According to Solzhenitsyn, "To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is _____ " what?

3. How old was the author when his son was born?

4. What did the city of Manhattan try to build over a slave burial site?

5. Why did the author refrain from comforting his son when Michael Brown's killers were set free?

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