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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. What does Emily Raboteau say had been the primary goal of the perpetrator of the previous week's tragedy on the day her family walks over The High Bridge?
(a) Igniting a race war.
(b) Getting the police to shoot him.
(c) Driving black people back into segregation.
(d) Making a statement about bullying.

2. Why was Michael Brown's mother Lesley McSpadden prohibited from coming close to her son's body during the time he lay in the street?
(a) To keep the number of witnesses low.
(b) Because her husband requested that she not be allowed to see his body.
(c) She was hysterical.
(d) His body was evidence.

3. What does the author of "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning" ultimately determine is the one feeling that the whole United States needs to share before racially-motivated police brutality can end?
(a) Fear.
(b) Sympathy.
(c) Rage.
(d) Grief.

4. What name did Kiese Laymon call his grandmother?
(a) Mama.
(b) Grandmama.
(c) Granny.
(d) Gran.

5. When the author of the essay "Black and Blue" was warned by university officials to avoid walking in certain areas of the city, what threat does he mistakenly think he is being warned about?
(a) Weather.
(b) Police.
(c) Wild animals.
(d) Criminals.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Kevin Young states that being black is not a feeling and is not "simply a state of mind" (109), what does he say blackness is instead?

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

3. What does Emily Raboteau name as her first instinct when she first sees the first Know Your Rights mural in her neighborhood?

4. For the completion of what task did Kiese Laymon's grandmother used to stay up late on Saturday nights?

5. The series of Know Your Rights murals were placed in all of New York City's burroughs, with the exception of which burrough?

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