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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Devon, p. 82 to Tyrone, p. 101.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads?
(a) Calypso.
(b) Blues.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Reggae.

2. In "Attendance," the author writes, "We are all here, / Leslie and Bad Boy, Lupe and" who?
(a) Sterling.
(b) Steve.
(c) Tyrone.
(d) Raul.

3. What color eyes does Tanisha Scott have?
(a) Green.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Blue.
(d) Brown.

4. Wesley describes writing a poem about what poet in "Wesley Bad Boy Boone"?
(a) Maya Angelou.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Jupiter Hammon.
(d) Gwendolyn Brooks.

5. The author describes painting a ribbon of what "on your windowsill" in "If"?
(a) Clouds.
(b) Dreams.
(c) Night.
(d) Fortune.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Wesley Bad Boy Boone," Wesley says he has the longest list of excuses for missing what?

2. What is Lupe's last name?

3. Where does Leslie say she grew up in "Leslie Lucas"?

4. What has long been something of an "outsider" art form that exists somewhere outside the mainstream, having been conceived in the 1920s by African-Americans?

5. Who wrote the 1937 novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God"?

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