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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. From what city did Phillis Wheatley's husband hail?
(a) Boston.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Hartford.
(d) Providence.

2. Which of her audiences does Kiese Laymon say his grandmother had considered to be the most important audience of her work?
(a) White male shift managers.
(b) Preceding Southern black women workers.
(c) The women at her church.
(d) Upcoming Southern black women workers.

3. How does the author of "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning" characterize the attempt by some white people to amend the language of the Black Lives Matter movement to All Lives Matter?
(a) Centralizing whiteness.
(b) Unintentional ignorance.
(c) Ethnocentrism personified.
(d) Subliminal racism.

4. In what state was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Florida.
(d) Tennessee.

5. What company did Jesmyn Ward use in order to obtain a report of her genetic ancestry?
(a) Living DNA.
(b) National Geographic Genographic Project.
(c) 23andMe.
(d) Ancestry DNA.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. How many men does Mitchell Jackson name as belonging to his group of father figures?

3. In what New Orleans area cemetery is the author of "Lonely in America's" family buried?

4. In what location did Granddaddy die within Kima Jones's poem "Homegoing, A.D."?

5. While Jesmyn Ward's father was born in Pass Christian, Mississippi, to what California city had he moved as a teenager in 1969?

(see the answer key)

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