This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Jubilee: "Theories of Time and Space"; "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution"; "Message to My Daughters".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the author of "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning" characterize the attempt by some white people to amend the language of the Black Lives Matter movement to All Lives Matter?
(a) Centralizing whiteness.
(b) Ethnocentrism personified.
(c) Unintentional ignorance.
(d) Subliminal racism.

2. To whom had the author of "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution" been instructed to write by his wife before he had decided to write to her instead?
(a) Their future children.
(b) His mother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) The reverend of their church.

3. From the deaths of Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice, how many indictments were handed down?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Zero.
(d) One.

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

5. What is the name of the U.S. Senator who is famous for opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1957 "so strenuously that he conducted the longest lone filibuster ever" for over 24 straight hours?
(a) Benjamin Cardin.
(b) Thomas Carper.
(c) Trent Lott.
(d) Strom Thurmond.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" state was the demographic makeup of her school in the 1970s?

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

3. What is the main pastime depicted within the poem "The Tradition"?

4. When Kiese Laymon states all of the things that the album ATLliens brought him to love about himself, what is an item that is NOT on his list?

5. How many hours does the road trip described in "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones last?

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