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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. The author of "White Rage" states that the case of Connick vs. Thompson ruled that it was what "for a city prosecutor's staff to hide evidence that exonerated a black man who was rotting on death row for 14 years" (87)?
(a) Unconstitutional.
(b) Illegal.
(c) Legal.
(d) Justified.

2. What does Emily Raboteau name as her first instinct when she first sees the first Know Your Rights mural in her neighborhood?
(a) To show her son.
(b) To turn away.
(c) To cry.
(d) To take a picture.

3. The biography of Phillis Wheatley published in 1834 called Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, was written by a woman who claimed to be a what of Phillis Wheatley's former mistress?
(a) "A collateral descendant" (65).
(b) "An incidental family member" (65).
(c) "A distant relative" (65).
(d) "A kissing cousin" (65).

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

5. What does Emily Raboteau say had been the primary goal of the perpetrator of the previous week's tragedy on the day her family walks over The High Bridge?
(a) Driving black people back into segregation.
(b) Igniting a race war.
(c) Getting the police to shoot him.
(d) Making a statement about bullying.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many years had The High Bridge been inactive before reopening again just before Emily Raboteau and her family took a walk across it?

2. In what state did the author's mother in "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" grow up, ensconced in poverty?

3. Who else in Jesmyn Ward's family gets genetic testing done at the same time she does?

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

5. When discussing the murders at Emanuel Methodist Church, the author of "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning" states, "But Dylann Storm Roof did not create himself from" (146) what element?

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