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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Tradition"; Introduction; Part I, Legacy: "Homegoing, AD"; "The Weight"; "Lonely in America".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2014.
(d) 2013.

2. What is the name of the police officer who shot Trayvon Martin?
(a) Roy Oliver.
(b) Frank Garmback.
(c) George Zimmerman.
(d) Timothy Loehmann.

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)?
(a) Joy.
(b) Optimism.
(c) Hope.
(d) Depression.

4. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say is directed toward her by the majority of Americans and has become her dark twin?
(a) Disdain.
(b) Pity.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Contempt.

5. Which family member's house in New Orleans had been destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and was subsequently visited by the author of "Lonely in America"?
(a) Grandmama.
(b) Uncle Chester.
(c) Aunt Lou.
(d) Great-aunt Louise.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Trayvon Martin at the time he was killed?

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

4. 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?

5. To what area of the United States does the author of "Lonely in America" say that her "cultural memory of slavery" is relegated?

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