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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 is the term used for a person's ability to be regarded as belonging to a different race, culture, or group different from their own?
(a) Passing.
(b) Joining.
(c) Tracking.
(d) Slinging.

2. What is the occasion bringing everyone together within the poem "Homegoing, A.D. by Kima Jones?
(a) A wedding anniversary.
(b) A funeral.
(c) A wedding.
(d) A birth.

3. In what year did Phillis Wheatley sail to London for a six week period in order to promote her poetry?
(a) 1768.
(b) 1832.
(c) 1773.
(d) 1901.

4. 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) Grandmama.
(c) Uncle Chester.
(d) Aunt Lou.

5. Who was the author of Memoir and Poems of Phyllis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave?
(a) Margaretta Matilda Odell.
(b) Jane Augusten Burroughs.
(c) Mary Margaret Johann.
(d) Marie Ellen Magdalena.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two things does Kevin Young state that people must not have done in a while if they are surprised by "a white lady darkening her skin and curling her hair"? (106)

2. When all flags in the United States flew at half staff after the killings at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, which state did not lower its Confederate flag on state-house grounds?

3. The series of Know Your Rights murals were placed in all of New York City's burroughs, with the exception of which burrough?

4. Kiese Laymon reports that it "was only after listening to ATLliens" that he realized where he needed to go as a human being and an artist. What did he decide he needed to do?

5. In addition to Andre 3000, who is the other member of OutKast?

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