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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Weather.
(c) Wild animals.
(d) Police.

2. 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 stepfather's physical abuse.
(b) His grandmother's physical abuse.
(c) His mother's physical abuse.
(d) His brother's physical abuse.

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

4. 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) Humor them.
(d) Throw them a bone.

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

6. What does Emily Raboteau name as her first instinct when she first sees the first Know Your Rights mural in her neighborhood?
(a) To cry.
(b) To show her son.
(c) To turn away.
(d) To take a picture.

7. 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.

8. The author of the essay "Black and Blue" imagined himself in childhood as the Jamaican version of what fictional character?
(a) Oliver Twist.
(b) Robinson Crusoe.
(c) Tom Sawyer.
(d) Holden Caulfield.

9. What does the author of "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning" ultimately determine is the one feeling that the whole United States needs to share before racially-motivated police brutality can end?
(a) Rage.
(b) Sympathy.
(c) Fear.
(d) Grief.

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

11. 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) 52.
(b) 36.
(c) 64.
(d) 41.

12. 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?
(a) President Eisenhower.
(b) His mother.
(c) His brother.
(d) The Chicago Police Department.

13. 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) Witnessing.
(b) Planting.
(c) Burying.
(d) Ignoring.

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

15. 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 blackness.
(c) His tendency to anger quickly.
(d) His celibate lifestyle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What author does the poem "Queries of Unrest" reference in its dedication?

3. At what age had the author of the essay "Black and Blue" begun walking in Jamaica after dark?

4. Though Mitchell Jackson's father lived no more than a bike ride away from his mother's home, for how many formative years of his life was Mitchell's father absent?

5. What two things does Kevin Young state that people must not have done in a while if they are surprised by "a white lady darkening her skin and curling her hair"? (106)

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