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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. The final line of the poem "Queries of Unrest" references "trying to save them the time of" doing what "to darkness when all they have to do is close their eyes" (100)?
(a) Ignoring.
(b) Witnessing.
(c) Burying.
(d) Planting.
2. At the end of her essay "Message to My Daughters" what does the author say that everyone will be wearing when "that day of Jubilee finally arrives" (215)?
(a) Tiaras.
(b) Sashes.
(c) Smiles.
(d) Crowns.
3. 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?
(a) A way of believing.
(b) A way of living.
(c) A way of acting.
(d) A way of being.
4. How does the author of "Lonely in America" say she would likely have handled being enslaved?
(a) She would have run away.
(b) She would have slain her master.
(c) She would have developed a dissociative disorder.
(d) She would not have survived it.
5. How many men does Mitchell Jackson name as belonging to his group of father figures?
(a) Seven.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Six.
Short Answer Questions
1. Of what feeling does the author of "Lonely in America" say she had been trying to cure in herself as a "strategy to ward off future misery" (34)?
2. The author of "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution" says that three weeks before his writing of "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution," he and his wife had been in what country?
3. In her essay in the Washington Post, what does Raha Jorjani argue that African-Americans could easily qualify as?
4. What is the title of Part III of The Fire This Time?
5. In his essay "Blacker Than Thou," Kevin Young says that "racism's daily injustices are almost" a what "against it" (112)?
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