View a FREE sample

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. For which organization did Rachel Dolezal serve as a chapter president before the news broke that she was feigning her African-American ancestry?
(a) The National Urban League.
(b) The National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice.
(c) Jack and Jill of America.
(d) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

2. 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) Making a statement about bullying.
(c) Getting the police to shoot him.
(d) Igniting a race war.

3. At the end of her essay "Cracking the Code," Jesmyn Ward states that she imagines that a longing for what element had been a part of all of her ancestors' lives?
(a) The longing to belong.
(b) The longing to be understood.
(c) The longing for independence.
(d) The longing to be heard.

4. What is NOT one of the services Mitchell Jackson says had been provided to him by one or all of his group of father figures?
(a) They had given him tough love when he needed it.
(b) They had nurtured him.
(c) They had made sure he knew it was in him to surpass them.
(d) They had bestowed him with wisdom.

5. 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) Subliminal racism.
(b) Ethnocentrism personified.
(c) Unintentional ignorance.
(d) Centralizing whiteness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the line "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read" (214)?

2. In his essay "Blacker Than Thou," Kevin Young says that "racism's daily injustices are almost" a what "against it" (112)?

3. What musician does Kevin Young name as the most prominent example of a white person living as a black person?

4. In addition to Andre 3000, who is the other member of OutKast?

5. The Syrian poet Nizar Qabban wrote that "Our deliverance is in drawing with" (198) what element?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 374 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample