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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years elapsed between the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama and the shootings at the Emanuel Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina?
(a) 36.
(b) 52.
(c) 41.
(d) 64.

2. In what state did Kiese Laymon's grandmother live and work?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Mississippi.

3. When Kiese Laymon states all of the things that the album ATLliens brought him to love about himself, what is an item that is NOT on his list?
(a) His Southernness.
(b) His tendency to anger quickly.
(c) His blackness.
(d) His celibate lifestyle.

4. In addition to Andre 3000, who is the other member of OutKast?
(a) Kendrick Lamar.
(b) Bootsy Collins.
(c) Big Boi.
(d) Lil Wayne.

5. To what danger is the author of the essay "Black and Blue" referring when he writes, "The streets had their own safety. Unlike at home, there I could be myself without fear of bodily harm" (130)?
(a) His brother's physical abuse.
(b) His stepfather's physical abuse.
(c) His mother's physical abuse.
(d) His grandmother's physical abuse.

6. When Kiese Laymon was busy analyzing the Outkast song "Wailin'," what was he supposed to be doing instead?
(a) Applying to graduate schools.
(b) Applying for jobs.
(c) Writing a paper about "The Cask of Amontillado."
(d) Baking a rhubarb pie for his grandmother.

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

8. The series of Know Your Rights murals were commissioned by a coalition of grassroots organizations called People's Justice for Community Control and what?
(a) Public Safety.
(b) Prosperity.
(c) Freedom of Movement.
(d) Police Accountability.

9. 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?
(a) Unicorn.
(b) Loch Ness Monster.
(c) Leprechaun.
(d) Sasquatch.

10. 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 the foundation of a strong upbringing.
(b) From a place of understanding.
(c) From nothing.
(d) From God's image.

11. 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 made sure he knew it was in him to surpass them.
(b) They had nurtured him.
(c) They had bestowed him with wisdom.
(d) They had given him tough love when he needed it.

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

13. 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 she does not like to infringe upon Kiese's privacy.
(c) Because there is a music festival happening in her hometown.
(d) Because Kiese is the only black person she knows in Oxford.

14. 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) Wake them up.
(b) Let them win.
(c) Throw them a bone.
(d) Humor them.

15. To which book of the Bible does the OutKast song "Da Art of Storytellin' (Pt. 2)" refer?
(a) Psalms.
(b) Job.
(c) Revelations.
(d) Genesis.

Short Answer 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?

2. Who requested an open coffin for Emmett Till's funeral and granted permission for photographs of his mutilated, lynched body to be taken and published?

3. What was the first OutKast album Kiese Laymon ever heard?

4. How many of Mitchell Jackson's father figures were biologically related to him?

5. The author of the essay "Black and Blue" imagined himself in childhood as the Jamaican version of what fictional character?

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