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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 adverb is repeated 14 times within the poem "Queries of Unrest"?
(a) Perhaps.
(b) Possibly.
(c) Maybe.
(d) Ostensibly.

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

3. While Jesmyn Ward's father was born in Pass Christian, Mississippi, to what California city had he moved as a teenager in 1969?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Oakland.
(d) Vallejo.

4. What is the name of the era in which African-Americans made leaps in advancement just after the end of slavery?
(a) Reconstruction.
(b) Restoration.
(c) Revitalization.
(d) Renaissance.

5. What does the author of "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning" ultimately determine is the one feeling that the whole United States needs to share before racially-motivated police brutality can end?
(a) Fear.
(b) Rage.
(c) Grief.
(d) Sympathy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the author of "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning" end her list of rules that she says may help a black person avoid being killed?

3. What is the name of the U.S. Senator who is famous for opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1957 "so strenuously that he conducted the longest lone filibuster ever" for over 24 straight hours?

4. How many of Mitchell Jackson's father figures were biologically related to him?

5. How many books of Phillis Wheatley's poetry were published during her lifetime?

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