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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. When Kiese Laymon was busy analyzing the Outkast song "Wailin'," what was he supposed to be doing instead?
(a) Baking a rhubarb pie for his grandmother.
(b) Writing a paper about "The Cask of Amontillado."
(c) Applying for jobs.
(d) Applying to graduate schools.

2. From what city did Phillis Wheatley's husband hail?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Boston.
(c) Hartford.
(d) Providence.

3. Why was Michael Brown's mother Lesley McSpadden prohibited from coming close to her son's body during the time he lay in the street?
(a) Because her husband requested that she not be allowed to see his body.
(b) To keep the number of witnesses low.
(c) She was hysterical.
(d) His body was evidence.

4. The author of "Where Do We Go from Here?" states that "we must know deep in our bones and in our hearts that if the ancestors survived" what, "we can survive anything" (62)?
(a) Systemic racism.
(b) Jim Crow laws.
(c) The indignities of slavery.
(d) The Middle Passage.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say is directed toward her by the majority of Americans and has become her dark twin?

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

3. At what type of factory did Kiese Laymon's grandmother work for 30 years?

4. What term did the historians referred to in "Where Do We Go from Here?" use to describe the last reversal of African-American advancement?

5. In what country did Rachel Dolezal falsely claim to have lived?

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