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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 is the main pastime depicted within the poem "The Tradition"?
(a) Playing the piano.
(b) Going for ice cream.
(c) Playing baseball.
(d) Gardening.

2. When discussing the murders at Emanuel Methodist Church, the author of "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning" states, "But Dylann Storm Roof did not create himself from" (146) what element?
(a) From nothing.
(b) From the foundation of a strong upbringing.
(c) From God's image.
(d) From a place of understanding.

3. What distinction does a senior editor announce as applying to the author of "The Weight" during the first week of his internship?
(a) Youngest intern.
(b) First gay intern.
(c) First black intern.
(d) Least educated intern.

4. Who wrote the line "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read" (214)?
(a) Alice Walker.
(b) Frederick Douglass.
(c) Maya Angelou.
(d) James Baldwin.

5. What two reptiles are the source of the danger during the final scene of Kima Jones's prose poem "Homegoing, A.D."?
(a) Brown rattlesnakes and chameleons.
(b) Copperhead snakes and alligators.
(c) Crocodiles and Gila monsters.
(d) Poison Dart frogs and salamanders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What roadway is referenced within the poem "Theories of Time and Space"?

2. When Kiese Laymon invites his grandmother up to Oxford where he lives at the time, why does she refuse to come?

3. When Kiese Laymon was busy analyzing the Outkast song "Wailin'," what was he supposed to be doing instead?

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

5. When Kevin Young writes that being black is not a paid position, to what type of position does he liken it instead?

(see the answer key)

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