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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Armored Against Fear (pages 135-152).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author recall always having, even when times were hard?
(a) Money.
(b) Family and friends.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Power.

2. What did Dr. Jones expect would happen to the man who shot her son?
(a) He would be charged with a crime.
(b) He would be put on administrative leave.
(c) He would be set free.
(d) He would by lynched by an angry mob.

3. How does the author describe Prince Jones' upbringing?
(a) Middle-class.
(b) Inner-city.
(c) Poor.
(d) Privileged.

4. How does the author describe the classroom?
(a) A palace of thought.
(b) An open, unending forum of ideas.
(c) A jail of other people's interests.
(d) The road to freedom.

5. What did the author's parents teach him about religion?
(a) He should find his own spiritual path.
(b) They were devout Baptists.
(c) They rejected all religions.
(d) They were devout Muslims.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom was the author interviewing in Chicago?

2. The author believes that when the body is shattered, what happens?

3. The author admires Malcolm X because he never:

4. What essential question does the author pose in his memoir?

5. Which Howard University student was shot by a PG County officer shortly after the author's encounter with the police?

(see the answer key)

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