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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. What was the first name of Phillis Wheatley's mistress?
(a) Savannah.
(b) Susannah.
(c) Clementine.
(d) Melanie.

2. In what town is the pier that the speaker of the poem "Theories of Time and Space" names as a dead end?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Biloxi.
(c) Tupelo.
(d) Gulfport.

3. In the essay "Where Do We Go from Here?", continual progress for African-Americans is claimed to be a what?
(a) A myth.
(b) A birthright.
(c) A reason for hope.
(d) A moral certainty.

4. The self-help book that the author of "Lonely in America" tries to live by within the essay says that "to become free of disappointment, one must acknowledge the obvious, then" (37) do what?
(a) Become familiar with its underpinnings..
(b) Learn to live with it.
(c) Forget about it.
(d) Embrace it.

5. To what state did Abner Louima move after his ordeal being beaten and sexually assaulted by New York policemen in 1997?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) Florida.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Maine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author of "Message to My Daughters" say had appeared to be the primary task of the staff at the Brooklyn junior high school she attended as a child?

2. What finding in the results of Jesmyn Ward's genetic testing results shocked her?

3. What noun does the author of "Message to My Daughters" want to tell her daughters lies before them and that they need not take it or leave it as they found it?

4. When Kevin Young states that being black is not a feeling and is not "simply a state of mind" (109), what does he say blackness is instead?

5. What does the author of "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning" ultimately determine is the one feeling that the whole United States needs to share before racially-motivated police brutality can end?

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