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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 emotion does Jesmyn Ward say is directed toward her by the majority of Americans and has become her dark twin?
(a) Disdain.
(b) Pity.
(c) Contempt.
(d) Hatred.

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"?
(a) Great-aunt Louise.
(b) Aunt Lou.
(c) Grandmama.
(d) Uncle Chester.

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?
(a) The Chasm.
(b) The Nadir.
(c) The Fatwa.
(d) The Fakir.

4. Over what river does The High Bridge in New York City pass?
(a) The Hudson River.
(b) The Harlem River.
(c) The Bronx River.
(d) The East River.

5. For how many years had The High Bridge been inactive before reopening again just before Emily Raboteau and her family took a walk across it?
(a) Fifty-plus.
(b) Twenty-plus.
(c) Thirty-plus.
(d) Forty-plus.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what university did Kevin Young teach for five years?

2. In order to get away from the site of the murder of her son, Tamir Rice, Samaria Rice moved out of her Cleveland home and into what type of dwelling?

3. In his essay "Blacker Than Thou," Kevin Young says that "racism's daily injustices are almost" a what "against it" (112)?

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

5. What action does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, A.D." say that she and those with her perform "cuz gator made for water, but children born for land" (18)?

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