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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 song did President Barack Obama sing at the funeral for those killed in the Emanuel Mother Church massacre?
(a) Ave Maria.
(b) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
(c) Amazing Grace.
(d) My Country 'Tis of Thee.

2. How often do historians say lynchings of African-Americans occurred in the early decades of the twentieth century?
(a) Every week.
(b) Every four days.
(c) Every day.
(d) Every month.

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?
(a) Passing.
(b) Tracking.
(c) Slinging.
(d) Joining.

4. At what age did the poet Phillis Wheatley die?
(a) 28.
(b) 34.
(c) 38.
(d) 42.

5. Kevin Young begins his essay "Blacker Than Thou" by discussing which movie in which Steve Martin plays the lead role?
(a) The Three Amigos.
(b) The Jerk.
(c) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
(d) The Pink Panther.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the occasion bringing everyone together within the poem "Homegoing, A.D. by Kima Jones?

2. A 2013 report by researchers at Brandeis University calculated that what fraction "of the collective wealth of African-American families was stripped away" (86) during the Great Recession?

3. To end his essay "Blacker Than Thou," what three fruits does Kevin Young recollect eating in the morning?

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. When all flags in the United States flew at half staff after the killings at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, which state did not lower its Confederate flag on state-house grounds?

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