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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. According to the author, slavery transfigured black bodies into:
(a) Sugar, tobacco, cotton and gold.
(b) Hollow shells of former men.
(c) Animals.
(d) Beasts of burden.

2. Why is Dr. Jones concerned for her grandson?
(a) The media continue to follow her family.
(b) He is now old enough to begin asking questions about Prince Jones' death.
(c) She feels the shadow of his uncle's death will hang over him.
(d) American is a violent place to raise a black child.

3. How old was Tamir Rice when he was shot?
(a) Six.
(b) 21.
(c) Two.
(d) 12.

4. What does the author describe as the "enemy of art, courageous thinking and honest writing"?
(a) Religion.
(b) The Dream.
(c) Public education.
(d) Science.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to the author, how much was the slave population worth at the start of the Civil War?

4. What did Dr. Jones expect would happen to the man who shot her son?

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

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