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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. 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?
(a) 2/3.
(b) 1/4.
(c) 1/2.
(d) 3/4.

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

3. 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) Two million.
(c) 8 million.
(d) Six million.

4. What is the name of the U.S. Senator who is famous for opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1957 "so strenuously that he conducted the longest lone filibuster ever" for over 24 straight hours?
(a) Trent Lott.
(b) Strom Thurmond.
(c) Thomas Carper.
(d) Benjamin Cardin.

5. What is the name of the era in which African-Americans made leaps in advancement just after the end of slavery?
(a) Revitalization.
(b) Reconstruction.
(c) Restoration.
(d) Renaissance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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)

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)?

4. In what location did Granddaddy die within Kima Jones's poem "Homegoing, A.D."?

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

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