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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) Quixotic.
(c) Linear.
(d) Problematic.

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% African-American.
(c) 99% Caucasian.
(d) 48% African American and 52% Caucasian.

3. The author of "White Rage" states that while before the Great Recession, white Americans had four times more wealth than black Americans, by 2010 the gap had increased to how many times?
(a) Eight times.
(b) Six times.
(c) Ten times.
(d) Five times.

4. How old was Trayvon Martin at the time he was killed?
(a) 21.
(b) 15.
(c) 17.
(d) 19.

5. What song did President Barack Obama sing at the funeral for those killed in the Emanuel Mother Church massacre?
(a) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.
(b) Amazing Grace.
(c) My Country 'Tis of Thee.
(d) Ave Maria.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city does the author of "The Weight" meet his friend in order to visit the house in which James Baldwin died?

2. In what year did Phillis Wheatley sail to London for a six week period in order to promote her poetry?

3. When all flags in the United States flew at half staff after the killings at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, which state did not lower its Confederate flag on state-house grounds?

4. From what state does Kevin Young say that his family hails?

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

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