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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. 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?
(a) Trinity College.
(b) Talladega College.
(c) Carlsbad College.
(d) Affinity College.

2. In the essay "Where Do We Go from Here?", continual progress for African-Americans is claimed to be a what?
(a) A birthright.
(b) A reason for hope.
(c) A moral certainty.
(d) A myth.

3. What was the name of Phillis Wheatley's husband, who is being defended in the essay "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband"?
(a) James Jackson.
(b) John Wheatley.
(c) John Peters.
(d) Jacob Wheatley.

4. At what type of factory did Kiese Laymon's grandmother work for 30 years?
(a) A watchmaking factory.
(b) A chicken plant.
(c) A candy factory.
(d) A lumber mill.

5. What two qualities of his grandmother's does Kiese Laymon say he did not understand or feel inspired by until he heard his first OutKast album?
(a) Her stank and freshness.
(b) Her funk and business sense.
(c) Her light and heat.
(d) Her smile and soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Emily Raboteau name as her first instinct when she first sees the first Know Your Rights mural in her neighborhood?

2. When Kevin Young, the author of "Blacker Than Thou" outlines his next book for the reader, under what type of text does he say his new book falls?

3. 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?

4. What emotion did Emily Dickinson define as "the thing with feathers" (166)?

5. Kiese Laymon reports that it "was only after listening to ATLliens" that he realized where he needed to go as a human being and an artist. What did he decide he needed to do?

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