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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 was the first OutKast album Kiese Laymon ever heard?
(a) Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik.
(b) Aquemini.
(c) AtLliens.
(d) Stankonia.

2. Once the author of "The Weight" stopped reading James Baldwin's works in order to separate his own work from that of James Baldwin's, what is NOT one author he mentions reading voraciously?
(a) Bell hooks.
(b) Henry Dumas.
(c) Ralph Ellison.
(d) Sergei Dovlatov.

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

4. Which of her audiences does Kiese Laymon say his grandmother had considered to be the most important audience of her work?
(a) White male shift managers.
(b) The women at her church.
(c) Upcoming Southern black women workers.
(d) Preceding Southern black women workers.

5. After what meal did Kiese Laymon's grandmother make him take a teaspoon of cod liver oil whenever he stayed with her?
(a) Lunch.
(b) Dinner.
(c) Breakfast.
(d) Brunch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What major event happened upon Phillis Wheatley's return to America from London?

2. What does Kevin Young say in his essay "Blacker Than Thou" that "you have to do...with white people from time to time" (105)?

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

4. The author of "White Rage" states that while before the Great Recession, white Americans had four times more wealth than black Americans, by 2010 the gap had increased to how many times?

5. When Kiese Laymon was busy analyzing the Outkast song "Wailin'," what was he supposed to be doing instead?

(see the answer key)

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