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. Once the author of "The Weight" stopped reading James Baldwin's works in order to separate his own work from that of James Baldwin's, what is NOT one author he mentions reading voraciously?
(a) Ralph Ellison.
(b) Bell hooks.
(c) Henry Dumas.
(d) Sergei Dovlatov.

2. When Kevin Young writes that being black is not a paid position, to what type of position does he liken it instead?
(a) An apprenticeship.
(b) An indentured servitude.
(c) An internship.
(d) A volunteer position.

3. In what year did Phillis Wheatley sail to London for a six week period in order to promote her poetry?
(a) 1768.
(b) 1773.
(c) 1832.
(d) 1901.

4. The series of Know Your Rights murals were placed in all of New York City's burroughs, with the exception of which burrough?
(a) Queens.
(b) Staten Island.
(c) The Bronx.
(d) Brooklyn.

5. The biography of Phillis Wheatley published in 1834 called Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, was written by a woman who claimed to be a what of Phillis Wheatley's former mistress?
(a) "A collateral descendant" (65).
(b) "A distant relative" (65).
(c) "An incidental family member" (65).
(d) "A kissing cousin" (65).

Short Answer 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?

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

3. Whose original literary work inspired the title of The Fire This Time?

4. When Kevin Young, the author of "Blacker Than Thou" outlines his next book for the reader, under what type of text does he say his new book falls?

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

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