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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 one thing "these ladies know how to do" according to Tyrone in his commentary of "El Noche"?
(a) Be sassy and confrontational.
(b) Be soft and strong.
(c) Be spiteful and mean.
(d) Be warm and tender.

2. Who wrote the 1937 novel "Their Eyes Were Watching God"?
(a) Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
(b) Zora Neale Hurston.
(c) Margaret Mitchell.
(d) Taylor Caldwell.

3. Janelle wishes she were tall and elegant like who, in "Janelle Battle"?
(a) Lupe.
(b) Gloria.
(c) Diondra.
(d) Tanisha.

4. In "El Noche," the author writes of the earth being hollow as a what?
(a) Tunnel.
(b) Flute.
(c) Bell.
(d) Coconut.

5. What intersection in Harlem is described in "Long Live Langston"?
(a) Lenox and 7th.
(b) Malcolm X Blvd and 128th.
(c) 145th and Broadway.
(d) 151st and Amsterdam Ave.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Leslie claim "has the reputation for being a little touched in the head" in "Leslie Lucas"?

2. 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?

3. Diondra wishes she were as bold as who in "Diondra Jordan"?

4. Who does Lupe say she broke up with last night in "Lupe"?

5. Who does Judianne say every boy in school has a crush on in "Judianne Alexander"?

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