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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. A 2016 joint report by the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund states that the Republicans' plan to emphasize identification requirements would adversely affect how many African-American voters?
(a) Six million.
(b) Three million.
(c) Ten million.
(d) Eight million.

2. In addition to Andre 3000, who is the other member of OutKast?
(a) Kendrick Lamar.
(b) Big Boi.
(c) Bootsy Collins.
(d) Lil Wayne.

3. To what danger is the author of the essay "Black and Blue" referring when he writes, "The streets had their own safety. Unlike at home, there I could be myself without fear of bodily harm" (130)?
(a) His brother's physical abuse.
(b) His mother's physical abuse.
(c) His grandmother's physical abuse.
(d) His stepfather's physical abuse.

4. What author does the poem "Queries of Unrest" reference in its dedication?
(a) James Baldwin.
(b) Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) Walt Whitman.

5. From what city did Phillis Wheatley's husband hail?
(a) Boston.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Providence.
(d) Hartford.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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)?

4. Over what river does The High Bridge in New York City pass?

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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