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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 OutKast album Kiese Laymon ever heard?
(a) Stankonia.
(b) Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik.
(c) AtLliens.
(d) Aquemini.

2. What does Kevin Young say in his essay "Blacker Than Thou" that "you have to do...with white people from time to time" (105)?
(a) Humor them.
(b) Wake them up.
(c) Throw them a bone.
(d) Let them win.

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

4. How old was Tamir Rice at the time he was shot and killed by Cleveland police officers?
(a) 12.
(b) 16.
(c) 18.
(d) 20.

5. Which black female artist's work does Kiese Laymon set up as a counterpoint to the work of OutKast?
(a) Jill Scott.
(b) Lauryn Hill.
(c) Queen Latifah.
(d) Missy Elliott.

Short Answer Questions

1. The series of Know Your Rights murals were commissioned by a coalition of grassroots organizations called People's Justice for Community Control and what?

2. What term did the historians referred to in "Where Do We Go from Here?" use to describe the last reversal of African-American advancement?

3. 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?

4. In her essay in the Washington Post, what does Raha Jorjani argue that African-Americans could easily qualify as?

5. In what city does the author of "The Weight" meet his friend in order to visit the house in which James Baldwin died?

(see the answer key)

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