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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Jubilee: "Theories of Time and Space"; "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution"; "Message to My Daughters".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What action does the speaker within the poem "Theories of Time and Space" name as impossible within the first two lines?
(a) Going home.
(b) Getting comfortable.
(c) Staying blind to truth.
(d) Making true change.

2. When Kevin Young states that being black is not a feeling and is not "simply a state of mind" (109), what does he say blackness is instead?
(a) A way of living.
(b) A way of believing.
(c) A way of being.
(d) A way of acting.

3. The final line of the poem "Queries of Unrest" references "trying to save them the time of" doing what "to darkness when all they have to do is close their eyes" (100)?
(a) Planting.
(b) Witnessing.
(c) Ignoring.
(d) Burying.

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

5. From the deaths of Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice, how many indictments were handed down?
(a) Zero.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. The series of Know Your Rights murals were commissioned by a coalition of grassroots organizations called People's Justice for Community Control and what?

2. For what ultimate purpose does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" start her search for primary sources regarding Phillis Wheatley's life?

3. 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?

4. How many of Mitchell Jackson's father figures were biologically related to him?

5. What adjective does the writer of "The Weight" use to describe the black narrative within the United States?

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