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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Reckoning: "Black and Blue"; "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning"; "Know Your Rights!"; "Composite Pops".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jesmyn Ward's father is 51% Native American and is registered as a member of what tribe?
(a) Sioux.
(b) Choctaw.
(c) Blackfoot.
(d) Seneca.

2. What major event happened upon Phillis Wheatley's return to America from London?
(a) She gave birth to her third child.
(b) She was freed.
(c) She ran away from her master's home.
(d) She found that her husband had died in her absence.

3. Besides Phillis Wheatley, at least how many other slaves did her master own during his lifetime?
(a) 1.
(b) 12.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

4. What does Emily Raboteau say had been the primary goal of the perpetrator of the previous week's tragedy on the day her family walks over The High Bridge?
(a) Igniting a race war.
(b) Getting the police to shoot him.
(c) Driving black people back into segregation.
(d) Making a statement about bullying.

5. Who requested an open coffin for Emmett Till's funeral and granted permission for photographs of his mutilated, lynched body to be taken and published?
(a) His brother.
(b) President Eisenhower.
(c) The Chicago Police Department.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many years had The High Bridge been inactive before reopening again just before Emily Raboteau and her family took a walk across it?

2. While Jesmyn Ward's father was born in Pass Christian, Mississippi, to what California city had he moved as a teenager in 1969?

3. What is the name of the college that the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" attended within a rural Alabama town?

4. What is the title of Phillis Wheatley's most often-anthologized poem?

5. What name did Kiese Laymon call his grandmother?

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