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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) Grandmama.
(d) Granny.

2. What author does the poem "Queries of Unrest" reference in its dedication?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) James Baldwin.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib.

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) Ethnocentrism personified.
(b) Subliminal racism.
(c) Centralizing whiteness.
(d) Unintentional ignorance.

4. Though Mitchell Jackson's father lived no more than a bike ride away from his mother's home, for how many formative years of his life was Mitchell's father absent?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Eight.
(d) Ten.

5. In what country did Rachel Dolezal falsely claim to have lived?
(a) Zimbabwe.
(b) Nigeria.
(c) Jordan.
(d) South Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of trees does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones see that let her know they are close to their destination?

2. Which black female artist's work does Kiese Laymon set up as a counterpoint to the work of OutKast?

3. What tragic event had occurred the week before Emily Raboteau took her family on a walk over The High Bridge?

4. What type of internship had the author of "The Weight" been completing when he had first fallen wholly in the love with James Baldwin's works?

5. What does Kevin Young say in his essay "Blacker Than Thou" that "you have to do...with white people from time to time" (105)?

(see the answer key)

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