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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. Who is the poet who wrote the poem "Theories of Time and Space"?
(a) Natasha Tretheway.
(b) Emily Raboteau.
(c) Daniel Jose Older.
(d) Jesmyn Ward.

2. What adjective does the writer of "The Weight" use to describe the black narrative within the United States?
(a) Linear.
(b) Problematic.
(c) Fractured.
(d) Quixotic.

3. 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) Henry Dumas.
(b) Ralph Ellison.
(c) Sergei Dovlatov.
(d) Bell hooks.

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

5. What does Emily Raboteau name as her first instinct when she first sees the first Know Your Rights mural in her neighborhood?
(a) To take a picture.
(b) To cry.
(c) To show her son.
(d) To turn away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What roadway is referenced within the poem "Theories of Time and Space"?

2. What musician does Kevin Young name as the most prominent example of a white person living as a black person?

3. When Kiese Laymon invites his grandmother up to Oxford where he lives at the time, why does she refuse to come?

4. Who had just been killed while in police custody just before the author of "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution" and his wife returned to the United States?

5. To begin the essay "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning," Claudia Rankine relates a story about a friend of hers who had just given birth to a baby boy and whose first thought upon his birth was how she could get him out of the country. This thought occurred to her even before she had performed what two actions?

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