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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. In what city was an eighteenth century gravesite discovered that contained 13 people of African ancestry?
(a) Hartford, Connecticut.
(b) Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
(c) Worcester, Massachusetts.
(d) Providence, Rhode Island.

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

3. 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 North.
(b) The South.
(c) The East.
(d) The West.

4. What two adjectives does the author of the "The Weight" use to describe the whiteness of the magazine's offices?
(a) Stark and futuristic.
(b) Stately and grand.
(c) Serene and sterile.
(d) Blinding and sterile.

5. Who founded the college in Alabama that the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" attended?
(a) Former slaves.
(b) The Baptist Church of Alabama.
(c) Plantation owners.
(d) The NAACP.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which black female artist's work does Kiese Laymon set up as a counterpoint to the work of OutKast?

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?

3. What musician does Kevin Young name as the most prominent example of a white person living as a black person?

4. 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?

5. What is the term used for a person's ability to be regarded as belonging to a different race, culture, or group different from their own?

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