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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 adjective does the writer of "The Weight" use to describe the black narrative within the United States?
(a) Fractured.
(b) Linear.
(c) Quixotic.
(d) Problematic.

2. At what university did Kevin Young teach for five years?
(a) The University of Iowa.
(b) The University of Massachusetts.
(c) The University of Georgia.
(d) The University of Washington.

3. In what city does the author of "The Weight" meet his friend in order to visit the house in which James Baldwin died?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Paris.
(c) Lisbon.
(d) Nice.

4. The biography of Phillis Wheatley published in 1834 called Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, was written by a woman who claimed to be a what of Phillis Wheatley's former mistress?
(a) "An incidental family member" (65).
(b) "A kissing cousin" (65).
(c) "A collateral descendant" (65).
(d) "A distant relative" (65).

5. In what New Orleans area cemetery is the author of "Lonely in America's" family buried?
(a) Normandy Cemetery.
(b) Greenwood Cemetery.
(c) Holt Cemetery.
(d) Calvary Cemetery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose original literary work inspired the title of The Fire This Time?

2. What author does the poem "Queries of Unrest" reference in its dedication?

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

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"?

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