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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. When Kiese Laymon was busy analyzing the Outkast song "Wailin'," what was he supposed to be doing instead?
(a) Applying to graduate schools.
(b) Applying for jobs.
(c) Baking a rhubarb pie for his grandmother.
(d) Writing a paper about "The Cask of Amontillado."

2. How does the author of "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning" end her list of rules that she says may help a black person avoid being killed?
(a) No standing your ground.
(b) No walking at night.
(c) No living while black.
(d) No hands in your pockets.

3. 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) His mother.
(c) The Chicago Police Department.
(d) President Eisenhower.

4. What does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" state was the demographic makeup of her school in the 1970s?
(a) 48% African American and 52% Caucasian.
(b) 23% African-American, 48% Caucasian, and 29% Native American.
(c) 99% Caucasian.
(d) 99% African-American.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author of "Where Do We Go from Here?" states that "we must know deep in our bones and in our hearts that if the ancestors survived" what, "we can survive anything" (62)?

2. 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?

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. What two things does Kevin Young state that people must not have done in a while if they are surprised by "a white lady darkening her skin and curling her hair"? (106)

5. What is the name of the era in which African-Americans made leaps in advancement just after the end of slavery?

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