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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 term did the historians referred to in "Where Do We Go from Here?" use to describe the last reversal of African-American advancement?
(a) The Nadir.
(b) The Fatwa.
(c) The Chasm.
(d) The Fakir.

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) Ralph Ellison.
(c) Henry Dumas.
(d) Sergei Dovlatov.

3. What is the title of Phillis Wheatley's most often-anthologized poem?
(a) "The Spider and the Fly."
(b) "On Being Brought from Africa to America."
(c) "Upon the Burning of Our House."
(d) "To My Dear and Loving Husband."

4. When the author of "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution" paraphrases Gil Scott-Heron, saying that "the revolution wasn't televised" (202), what does he say it was instead?
(a) It was ignored.
(b) It was yelled from the rooftops.
(c) It was live-tweeted.
(d) It was cast aside.

5. How does the author of "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning" characterize the attempt by some white people to amend the language of the Black Lives Matter movement to All Lives Matter?
(a) Unintentional ignorance.
(b) Centralizing whiteness.
(c) Ethnocentrism personified.
(d) Subliminal racism.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the essay "Where Do We Go from Here?", continual progress for African-Americans is claimed to be a what?

2. When the author of the essay "Black and Blue" was warned by university officials to avoid walking in certain areas of the city, what threat does he mistakenly think he is being warned about?

3. What type of internship had the author of "The Weight" been completing when he had first fallen wholly in the love with James Baldwin's works?

4. In what city does the author of "The Weight" meet his friend in order to visit the house in which James Baldwin died?

5. 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?

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