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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. Whose original literary work inspired the title of The Fire This Time?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Phyllis Wheatley.
(d) Ralph Ellison.

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

3. At what university did Kevin Young teach for five years?
(a) The University of Washington.
(b) The University of Iowa.
(c) The University of Georgia.
(d) The University of Massachusetts.

4. What belief does Mitchell Jackson hold that he underscores by calling it his "beating heart" (179)?
(a) Girls need fathers.
(b) Boys need fathers.
(c) Boys need mothers.
(d) Girls need mothers.

5. 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?
(a) The longing to belong.
(b) The longing to be understood.
(c) The longing for independence.
(d) The longing to be heard.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Phillis Wheatley's husband, who is being defended in the essay "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband"?

2. Kevin Young begins his essay "Blacker Than Thou" by discussing which movie in which Steve Martin plays the lead role?

3. 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)?

4. What name did Kiese Laymon call his grandmother?

5. What does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" name as her own mother's voice type?

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