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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 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?
(a) Loch Ness Monster.
(b) Leprechaun.
(c) Sasquatch.
(d) Unicorn.

2. What type of internship had the author of "The Weight" been completing when he had first fallen wholly in the love with James Baldwin's works?
(a) A publishing internship.
(b) A professorial internship.
(c) A carpentry internship.
(d) A reporting internship.

3. 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) Tracking.
(b) Joining.
(c) Passing.
(d) Slinging.

4. To begin the essay "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning," Claudia Rankine relates a story about a friend of hers who had just given birth to a baby boy and whose first thought upon his birth was how she could get him out of the country. This thought occurred to her even before she had performed what two actions?
(a) Potty trained him or weaned him.
(b) Checked out of the hospital or brought him home.
(c) Painted the nursery or weaned him.
(d) Named him or nursed him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What two adjectives does the author of the "The Weight" use to describe the whiteness of the magazine's offices?

2. 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?

3. In what location did Granddaddy die within Kima Jones's poem "Homegoing, A.D."?

4. Who requested an open coffin for Emmett Till's funeral and granted permission for photographs of his mutilated, lynched body to be taken and published?

5. How many men does Mitchell Jackson name as belonging to his group of father figures?

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