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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. The author of "White Rage" states that the case of Connick vs. Thompson ruled that it was what "for a city prosecutor's staff to hide evidence that exonerated a black man who was rotting on death row for 14 years" (87)?
(a) Illegal.
(b) Unconstitutional.
(c) Legal.
(d) Justified.

2. In what state was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?
(a) Florida.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Tennessee.

3. 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)?
(a) Systemic racism.
(b) Jim Crow laws.
(c) The indignities of slavery.
(d) The Middle Passage.

4. When Kiese Laymon states all of the things that the album ATLliens brought him to love about himself, what is an item that is NOT on his list?
(a) His Southernness.
(b) His celibate lifestyle.
(c) His blackness.
(d) His tendency to anger quickly.

5. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say she feels when she looks at the works collected in The Fire This Time?
(a) Dismay.
(b) Courage.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author of "Lonely in America" say she would likely have handled being enslaved?

2. At what university did Kevin Young teach for five years?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. Who else in Jesmyn Ward's family gets genetic testing done at the same time she does?

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