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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 emotion does Jesmyn Ward say she feels when she looks at the works collected in The Fire This Time?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Dismay.
(c) Hope.
(d) Courage.

2. In order to get away from the site of the murder of her son, Tamir Rice, Samaria Rice moved out of her Cleveland home and into what type of dwelling?
(a) A condominium.
(b) A homeless shelter.
(c) A relative's home.
(d) A hotel.

3. In what city was an eighteenth century gravesite discovered that contained 13 people of African ancestry?
(a) Hartford, Connecticut.
(b) Worcester, Massachusetts.
(c) Providence, Rhode Island.
(d) Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

4. 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?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Alabama.
(d) South Carolina.

5. How many African-Americans does the author of "Where Do We Go from Here?" say fled from the Jim Crow caste system enacted in the South?
(a) 1 million.
(b) Two million.
(c) Six million.
(d) 8 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what state does Kevin Young say that his family hails?

2. What belief did Kiese Laymon's grandmother hold that he points to as the only reason he is alive?

3. When Kevin Young, the author of "Blacker Than Thou" outlines his next book for the reader, under what type of text does he say his new book falls?

4. What topic is NOT listed among the issues that the author of "Lonely in America" feels unable to fixate upon in order to dispel her sense of loneliness?

5. The author of the essay "Black and Blue" states that seeing a lone woman walking at night in Jamaica was as common a sight as the sight of what mythic creature?

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