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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 title of Phillis Wheatley's most often-anthologized poem?
(a) "The Spider and the Fly."
(b) "To My Dear and Loving Husband."
(c) "Upon the Burning of Our House."
(d) "On Being Brought from Africa to America."

2. To begin the essay "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning," Claudia Rankine relates a story about a friend of hers who had just given birth to a baby boy and whose first thought upon his birth was how she could get him out of the country. This thought occurred to her even before she had performed what two actions?
(a) Named him or nursed him.
(b) Checked out of the hospital or brought him home.
(c) Painted the nursery or weaned him.
(d) Potty trained him or weaned him.

3. What does Kevin Young say in his essay "Blacker Than Thou" that "you have to do...with white people from time to time" (105)?
(a) Let them win.
(b) Throw them a bone.
(c) Humor them.
(d) Wake them up.

4. In what state did Kiese Laymon's grandmother live and work?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Alabama.

5. In a letter from Phillis Wheatley to the artist Obour Tanner, Wheatley relates the death of her mistress, saying that her mistress had treated her less like a "servant" (67) and more like a what?
(a) A friend.
(b) A sister.
(c) An employee.
(d) A child.

Short Answer Questions

1. The series of Know Your Rights murals were placed in all of New York City's burroughs, with the exception of which burrough?

2. The author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" states that most of the information about Phillis Wheatley comes from a book published how many years after the poet's death?

3. The series of Know Your Rights murals were commissioned by a coalition of grassroots organizations called People's Justice for Community Control and what?

4. 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?

5. What does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" name as her own mother's voice type?

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