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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Reckoning: "Queries of Unrest"; "Blacker Than Thou"; "Da Art of Storytellin' (a Prequel)".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say is directed toward her by the majority of Americans and has become her dark twin?
(a) Disdain.
(b) Contempt.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Pity.

2. How many African-Americans does the author of "Where Do We Go from Here?" say fled from the Jim Crow caste system enacted in the South?
(a) 1 million.
(b) Six million.
(c) Two million.
(d) 8 million.

3. Of what feeling does the author of "Lonely in America" say she had been trying to cure in herself as a "strategy to ward off future misery" (34)?
(a) Optimism.
(b) Hope.
(c) Joy.
(d) Depression.

4. Who founded the college in Alabama that the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" attended?
(a) The Baptist Church of Alabama.
(b) Plantation owners.
(c) The NAACP.
(d) Former slaves.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first name of Phillis Wheatley's mistress?

2. How often do historians say lynchings of African-Americans occurred in the early decades of the twentieth century?

3. What is the term used for a person's ability to be regarded as belonging to a different race, culture, or group different from their own?

4. The self-help book that the author of "Lonely in America" tries to live by within the essay says that "to become free of disappointment, one must acknowledge the obvious, then" (37) do what?

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

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