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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 company did Jesmyn Ward use in order to obtain a report of her genetic ancestry?
(a) National Geographic Genographic Project.
(b) Ancestry DNA.
(c) Living DNA.
(d) 23andMe.

2. What tragic event had occurred the week before Emily Raboteau took her family on a walk over The High Bridge?
(a) The church massacre in Charleston.
(b) Tamir Rice's murder.
(c) The Columbine shootings.
(d) Michael Brown's murder.

3. What musician does Kevin Young name as the most prominent example of a white person living as a black person?
(a) Little Richard.
(b) Bobby Darin.
(c) Rufus Wainwright.
(d) Johnny Otis.

4. What is the name of the police officer who shot Trayvon Martin?
(a) George Zimmerman.
(b) Timothy Loehmann.
(c) Roy Oliver.
(d) Frank Garmback.

5. At what age had the author of the essay "Black and Blue" begun walking in Jamaica after dark?
(a) 12.
(b) 14.
(c) 10.
(d) 13.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?

2. How old was Trayvon Martin at the time he was killed?

3. What action does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, A.D." say that she and those with her perform "cuz gator made for water, but children born for land" (18)?

4. What is the name of the editor who curated the works in The Fire This Time?

5. What was the first name of Phillis Wheatley's mistress?

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