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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. How does the author of "Lonely in America" say she would likely have handled being enslaved?
(a) She would have slain her master.
(b) She would have developed a dissociative disorder.
(c) She would have run away.
(d) She would not have survived it.

2. What is the name of the U.S. Senator who is famous for opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1957 "so strenuously that he conducted the longest lone filibuster ever" for over 24 straight hours?
(a) Trent Lott.
(b) Benjamin Cardin.
(c) Strom Thurmond.
(d) Thomas Carper.

3. In what location did Granddaddy die within Kima Jones's poem "Homegoing, A.D."?
(a) In his bed.
(b) On the porch.
(c) In the backyard.
(d) In the bathtub.

4. What is the occasion bringing everyone together within the poem "Homegoing, A.D. by Kima Jones?
(a) A wedding anniversary.
(b) A funeral.
(c) A wedding.
(d) A birth.

5. What two reptiles are the source of the danger during the final scene of Kima Jones's prose poem "Homegoing, A.D."?
(a) Brown rattlesnakes and chameleons.
(b) Poison Dart frogs and salamanders.
(c) Copperhead snakes and alligators.
(d) Crocodiles and Gila monsters.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what state was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?

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)?

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

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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