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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Porscha Johnson, p. 157 to Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is the person who asked Janelle to marry him in "Janelle"?
(a) 22.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 18.

2. Who wrote "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide"?
(a) Abdul Rahman Munif.
(b) Imamu Amiri Baraka.
(c) Mirza Alakbar Sabir.
(d) Ghulam Mustafa Khan.

3. Who does Leslie refer to as "the one girl in class almost nobody knows anything about" in "Leslie Lucas"?
(a) Diondra Jordan.
(b) Amy Moscowitz.
(c) Sheila Gamberoni.
(d) Porscha Johnson.

4. Who does Tanisha elect to draw portraits for a group project in "Tanisha Scott"?
(a) Janelle.
(b) Gloria.
(c) Diondra.
(d) Lupe.

5. 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) Blues.
(b) Calypso.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Reggae.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author of write in the final line after "P.S." in "A Letter to my Mother"?

2. What did Diondra's father find laying out last night in "Diondra"?

3. In his commentary on "Ode to Stone," Tyrone says "Man! That girl is as cold as" what?

4. Who does Tyrone refer to as "skinny, bleach-blond" in "Tyrone"?

5. What does Porscha say she's doing as soon as she turns twenty-one in "Porscha Johnson"?

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