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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. In what decade did the the use of blackface begin?
(a) 1790s.
(b) 1820s.
(c) 1860s.
(d) 1830s.

2. What adverb is repeated 14 times within the poem "Queries of Unrest"?
(a) Possibly.
(b) Perhaps.
(c) Ostensibly.
(d) Maybe.

3. 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?
(a) Fifty-plus.
(b) Thirty-plus.
(c) Twenty-plus.
(d) Forty-plus.

4. What tragic event had occurred the week before Emily Raboteau took her family on a walk over The High Bridge?
(a) The Columbine shootings.
(b) The church massacre in Charleston.
(c) Tamir Rice's murder.
(d) Michael Brown's murder.

5. How does the author of "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning" characterize the attempt by some white people to amend the language of the Black Lives Matter movement to All Lives Matter?
(a) Ethnocentrism personified.
(b) Unintentional ignorance.
(c) Subliminal racism.
(d) Centralizing whiteness.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Kevin Young writes that being black is not a paid position, to what type of position does he liken it instead?

2. When Kiese Laymon invites his grandmother up to Oxford where he lives at the time, why does she refuse to come?

3. What record does The High Bridge hold within New York City?

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

5. How many books of Phillis Wheatley's poetry were published during her lifetime?

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