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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. To end his essay "Blacker Than Thou," what three fruits does Kevin Young recollect eating in the morning?
(a) Bananas, raspberries, and apples.
(b) Apples, pears, and strawberries.
(c) Kiwis, mangos, and pears.
(d) Grapes, blackberries, and plums.

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

3. The author of "Where Do We Go from Here?" states that "we must know deep in our bones and in our hearts that if the ancestors survived" what, "we can survive anything" (62)?
(a) Systemic racism.
(b) Jim Crow laws.
(c) The Middle Passage.
(d) The indignities of slavery.

4. Besides Phillis Wheatley, at least how many other slaves did her master own during his lifetime?
(a) 6.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 12.

5. The self-help book that the author of "Lonely in America" tries to live by within the essay says that "to become free of disappointment, one must acknowledge the obvious, then" (37) do what?
(a) Embrace it.
(b) Become familiar with its underpinnings..
(c) Forget about it.
(d) Learn to live with it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the era in which African-Americans made leaps in advancement just after the end of slavery?

3. Who else in Jesmyn Ward's family gets genetic testing done at the same time she does?

4. What finding in the results of Jesmyn Ward's genetic testing results shocked her?

5. The author of "White Rage" states that the case of Connick vs. Thompson ruled that it was what "for a city prosecutor's staff to hide evidence that exonerated a black man who was rotting on death row for 14 years" (87)?

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