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

2. What does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" state was the demographic makeup of her school in the 1970s?
(a) 23% African-American, 48% Caucasian, and 29% Native American.
(b) 99% Caucasian.
(c) 99% African-American.
(d) 48% African American and 52% Caucasian.

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

4. 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?
(a) His tendency to anger quickly.
(b) His celibate lifestyle.
(c) His Southernness.
(d) His blackness.

5. What does Kevin Young say in his essay "Blacker Than Thou" that "you have to do...with white people from time to time" (105)?
(a) Throw them a bone.
(b) Let them win.
(c) Humor them.
(d) Wake them up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What topic is NOT listed among the issues that the author of "Lonely in America" feels unable to fixate upon in order to dispel her sense of loneliness?

2. What two reptiles are the source of the danger during the final scene of Kima Jones's prose poem "Homegoing, A.D."?

3. A 2013 report by researchers at Brandeis University calculated that what fraction "of the collective wealth of African-American families was stripped away" (86) during the Great Recession?

4. 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?

5. What is the title of Phillis Wheatley's most often-anthologized poem?

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