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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. How did the author spend most of his time at The Mecca?
(a) Absorbing culture and music.
(b) Listening to and writing poetry.
(c) Arguing politics on the Lawn.
(d) Reading and taking notes on black literature and essays.

2. What important skills did the author's mother teach him?
(a) How to cook and clean his clothes.
(b) How to stretch a dollar.
(c) How to read and write.
(d) How to pray.

3. Who said, "Either I can beat him, or the police"?
(a) The author's mother.
(b) The author's father.
(c) The author.
(d) The author's grandmother.

4. How are racism and race linked?
(a) Categorizing people groups inevitably causes a power struggle.
(b) They are not linked.
(c) They are both unfair.
(d) People don't like what they don't understand.

5. As a child, what baffled the author about the nonviolent protests of the civil rights moment?
(a) He felt the police should have helped more.
(b) Kids should not see violent television.
(c) He had been raised in a violent society.
(d) Violence is illegal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the first white people the author knew on a personal level?

2. What eventually happened to the officer who shot Prince Jones?

3. Why does the author fear the PG County police?

4. What view does the author have of the afterlife?

5. Coats quotes that sixty percent of all young black men who drop out of high school will:

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