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. The essay entitled "Black and Blue" takes its name from a song by what African-American musician?
(a) Fats Waller.
(b) James Brown.
(c) Jelly Roll Morton.
(d) Muddy Waters.

2. What does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" state was the demographic makeup of her school in the 1970s?
(a) 23% African-American, 48% Caucasian, and 29% Native American.
(b) 48% African American and 52% Caucasian.
(c) 99% Caucasian.
(d) 99% African-American.

3. Of what feeling does the author of "Lonely in America" say she had been trying to cure in herself as a "strategy to ward off future misery" (34)?
(a) Joy.
(b) Hope.
(c) Depression.
(d) Optimism.

4. Once the author of "The Weight" stopped reading James Baldwin's works in order to separate his own work from that of James Baldwin's, what is NOT one author he mentions reading voraciously?
(a) Ralph Ellison.
(b) Henry Dumas.
(c) Sergei Dovlatov.
(d) Bell hooks.

5. Kevin Young begins his essay "Blacker Than Thou" by discussing which movie in which Steve Martin plays the lead role?
(a) The Three Amigos.
(b) The Jerk.
(c) The Pink Panther.
(d) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones, what kind of state does the narrator say she found out North Carolina is?

3. Who was the author of Memoir and Poems of Phyllis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave?

4. For the completion of what task did Kiese Laymon's grandmother used to stay up late on Saturday nights?

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

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