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 Kiese Laymon was busy analyzing the Outkast song "Wailin'," what was he supposed to be doing instead?
(a) Applying for jobs.
(b) Baking a rhubarb pie for his grandmother.
(c) Applying to graduate schools.
(d) Writing a paper about "The Cask of Amontillado."

2. To what area of the United States does the author of "Lonely in America" say that her "cultural memory of slavery" is relegated?
(a) The South.
(b) The West.
(c) The North.
(d) The East.

3. What kind of trees does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones see that let her know they are close to their destination?
(a) Magnolia trees.
(b) Apple trees.
(c) Palm trees.
(d) Palmetto trees.

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

5. What is the name of the era in which African-Americans made leaps in advancement just after the end of slavery?
(a) Renaissance.
(b) Revitalization.
(c) Reconstruction.
(d) Restoration.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. While Jesmyn Ward's father was born in Pass Christian, Mississippi, to what California city had he moved as a teenager in 1969?

3. In what country did Rachel Dolezal falsely claim to have lived?

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

5. Of what feeling does the author of "Lonely in America" say she had been trying to cure in herself as a "strategy to ward off future misery" (34)?

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