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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 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?
(a) Passing.
(b) Tracking.
(c) Slinging.
(d) Joining.

2. 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?
(a) Eight times.
(b) Five times.
(c) Six times.
(d) Ten times.

3. The author of the essay "Black and Blue" imagined himself in childhood as the Jamaican version of what fictional character?
(a) Robinson Crusoe.
(b) Tom Sawyer.
(c) Holden Caulfield.
(d) Oliver Twist.

4. In what state did the author's mother in "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" grow up, ensconced in poverty?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Kentucky.

5. The author of the essay "Black and Blue" states that seeing a lone woman walking at night in Jamaica was as common a sight as the sight of what mythic creature?
(a) Sasquatch.
(b) Unicorn.
(c) Leprechaun.
(d) Loch Ness Monster.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author of "White Rage" states that the case of Connick vs. Thompson ruled that it was what "for a city prosecutor's staff to hide evidence that exonerated a black man who was rotting on death row for 14 years" (87)?

2. Which family member's house in New Orleans had been destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and was subsequently visited by the author of "Lonely in America"?

3. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say is directed toward her by the majority of Americans and has become her dark twin?

4. What adverb is repeated 14 times within the poem "Queries of Unrest"?

5. Jesmyn Ward's father is 51% Native American and is registered as a member of what tribe?

(see the answer key)

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