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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Reckoning: "Black and Blue"; "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning"; "Know Your Rights!"; "Composite Pops".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who else in Jesmyn Ward's family gets genetic testing done at the same time she does?
(a) Her mother and her father.
(b) Her mother and her sister.
(c) Her father and her brother.
(d) Her father and her uncle.

2. For what ultimate purpose does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" start her search for primary sources regarding Phillis Wheatley's life?
(a) To publish a rebuttal to
(b) To write a collection of essays about freed slaves.
(c) To discover more about her own identity.
(d) To write a series of poems about Phillis Wheatley.

3. 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) The NAACP.
(b) Plantation owners.
(c) Former slaves.
(d) The Baptist Church of Alabama.

4. When Kevin Young writes that being black is not a paid position, to what type of position does he liken it instead?
(a) A volunteer position.
(b) An internship.
(c) An indentured servitude.
(d) An apprenticeship.

5. What does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" name as her own mother's voice type?
(a) Alto.
(b) Tenor.
(c) Soprano.
(d) Bass.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How does the author of "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning" end her list of rules that she says may help a black person avoid being killed?

3. Though Mitchell Jackson's father lived no more than a bike ride away from his mother's home, for how many formative years of his life was Mitchell's father absent?

4. For how many hours was Michael Brown's body left facedown in the street after being shot six times by police in Ferguson?

5. What is the main pastime depicted within the poem "The Tradition"?

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