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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Reckoning: "Queries of Unrest"; "Blacker Than Thou"; "Da Art of Storytellin' (a Prequel)".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Kevin Young writes that being black is not a paid position, to what type of position does he liken it instead?
(a) An internship.
(b) An indentured servitude.
(c) A volunteer position.
(d) An apprenticeship.

2. What is the name of the college that the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" attended within a rural Alabama town?
(a) Carlsbad College.
(b) Affinity College.
(c) Talladega College.
(d) Trinity College.

3. For the completion of what task did Kiese Laymon's grandmother used to stay up late on Saturday nights?
(a) Sewing her own clothes.
(b) Studying for her exams.
(c) Washing the kitchen floors.
(d) Doing the laundry.

4. At the end of her essay "Cracking the Code," Jesmyn Ward states that she imagines that a longing for what element had been a part of all of her ancestors' lives?
(a) The longing for independence.
(b) The longing to be understood.
(c) The longing to belong.
(d) The longing to be heard.

5. Jesmyn Ward's father is 51% Native American and is registered as a member of what tribe?
(a) Seneca.
(b) Sioux.
(c) Choctaw.
(d) Blackfoot.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his essay "Blacker Than Thou," Kevin Young says that "racism's daily injustices are almost" a what "against it" (112)?

2. 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?

3. What two adjectives does the author of the "The Weight" use to describe the whiteness of the magazine's offices?

4. How many books of Phillis Wheatley's poetry were published during her lifetime?

5. What song did President Barack Obama sing at the funeral for those killed in the Emanuel Mother Church massacre?

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