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

2. 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) Unicorn.
(b) Leprechaun.
(c) Loch Ness Monster.
(d) Sasquatch.

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

4. At what age did the poet Phillis Wheatley die?
(a) 38.
(b) 42.
(c) 28.
(d) 34.

5. When Kiese Laymon states all of the things that the album ATLliens brought him to love about himself, what is an item that is NOT on his list?
(a) His blackness.
(b) His celibate lifestyle.
(c) His Southernness.
(d) His tendency to anger quickly.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what area of the United States does the author of "Lonely in America" say that her "cultural memory of slavery" is relegated?

2. At the end of her essay "Cracking the Code," Jesmyn Ward states that she imagines that a longing for what element had been a part of all of her ancestors' lives?

3. What term did the historians referred to in "Where Do We Go from Here?" use to describe the last reversal of African-American advancement?

4. The author of the essay "Black and Blue" imagined himself in childhood as the Jamaican version of what fictional character?

5. 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?

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