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. What was the first OutKast album Kiese Laymon ever heard?
(a) Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik.
(b) Aquemini.
(c) AtLliens.
(d) Stankonia.

2. What is the title of the widely-circulated comic depicting the significant difference between what a white mother says to her son as he walks out the door, versus what a black mother says to her son as he walks out the door?
(a) Black and Blue.
(b) The Goin' Out Blues.
(c) Carefree and Panicked.
(d) Still Two Americas.

3. In a letter from Phillis Wheatley to the artist Obour Tanner, Wheatley relates the death of her mistress, saying that her mistress had treated her less like a "servant" (67) and more like a what?
(a) A friend.
(b) An employee.
(c) A sister.
(d) A child.

4. What does Emily Raboteau name as her first instinct when she first sees the first Know Your Rights mural in her neighborhood?
(a) To turn away.
(b) To cry.
(c) To take a picture.
(d) To show her son.

5. The series of Know Your Rights murals were commissioned by a coalition of grassroots organizations called People's Justice for Community Control and what?
(a) Prosperity.
(b) Freedom of Movement.
(c) Police Accountability.
(d) Public Safety.

Short Answer Questions

1. The final line of the poem "Queries of Unrest" references "trying to save them the time of" doing what "to darkness when all they have to do is close their eyes" (100)?

2. How does the author of "Lonely in America" say she would likely have handled being enslaved?

3. What belief did Kiese Laymon's grandmother hold that he points to as the only reason he is alive?

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

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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