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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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) Jack and Jill of America.
(b) The National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice.
(c) The National Urban League.
(d) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

2. What emotion did Emily Dickinson define as "the thing with feathers" (166)?
(a) Courage.
(b) Despair.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Hope.

3. In what Jamaican city did Garnette Cadogan, the author of the essay "Black and Blue," grow up?
(a) Kingston.
(b) Montego Bay.
(c) Portmore.
(d) Negril.

4. When Kiese Laymon invites his grandmother up to Oxford where he lives at the time, why does she refuse to come?
(a) Because her health is too poor for such a long trip.
(b) Because Kiese is the only black person she knows in Oxford.
(c) Because there is a music festival happening in her hometown.
(d) Because she does not like to infringe upon Kiese's privacy.

5. 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 acting.
(b) A way of living.
(c) A way of believing.
(d) A way of being.

6. When the author of the essay "Black and Blue" was warned by university officials to avoid walking in certain areas of the city, what threat does he mistakenly think he is being warned about?
(a) Criminals.
(b) Wild animals.
(c) Police.
(d) Weather.

7. Why was Michael Brown's mother Lesley McSpadden prohibited from coming close to her son's body during the time he lay in the street?
(a) To keep the number of witnesses low.
(b) Because her husband requested that she not be allowed to see his body.
(c) She was hysterical.
(d) His body was evidence.

8. To begin the essay "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning," Claudia Rankine relates a story about a friend of hers who had just given birth to a baby boy and whose first thought upon his birth was how she could get him out of the country. This thought occurred to her even before she had performed what two actions?
(a) Checked out of the hospital or brought him home.
(b) Named him or nursed him.
(c) Painted the nursery or weaned him.
(d) Potty trained him or weaned him.

9. From what state does Kevin Young say that his family hails?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Louisiana.

10. 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 bestowed him with wisdom.
(c) They had made sure he knew it was in him to surpass them.
(d) They had nurtured him.

11. Which of her audiences does Kiese Laymon say his grandmother had considered to be the most important audience of her work?
(a) The women at her church.
(b) White male shift managers.
(c) Preceding Southern black women workers.
(d) Upcoming Southern black women workers.

12. What adverb is repeated 14 times within the poem "Queries of Unrest"?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Possibly.
(c) Ostensibly.
(d) Perhaps.

13. Kevin Young begins his essay "Blacker Than Thou" by discussing which movie in which Steve Martin plays the lead role?
(a) The Pink Panther.
(b) The Jerk.
(c) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
(d) The Three Amigos.

14. In his essay "Blacker Than Thou," Kevin Young says that "racism's daily injustices are almost" a what "against it" (112)?
(a) An insurance policy.
(b) An argument.
(c) Weapon.
(d) An innoculation.

15. What belief did Kiese Laymon's grandmother hold that he points to as the only reason he is alive?
(a) Her belief that what does not kill us makes us stronger.
(b) Her belief that he could grow up to be anyone he wanted.
(c) Her belief that Kiese was a beautiful Southern black boy.
(d) Her belief that hard work could cure any ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to get away from the site of the murder of her son, Tamir Rice, Samaria Rice moved out of her Cleveland home and into what type of dwelling?

2. The essay entitled "Black and Blue" takes its name from a song by what African-American musician?

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

4. What tragic event had occurred the week before Emily Raboteau took her family on a walk over The High Bridge?

5. To which book of the Bible does the OutKast song "Da Art of Storytellin' (Pt. 2)" refer?

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