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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) 41.
(c) 64.
(d) 52.

2. What belief does Mitchell Jackson hold that he underscores by calling it his "beating heart" (179)?
(a) Boys need mothers.
(b) Girls need mothers.
(c) Boys need fathers.
(d) Girls need fathers.

3. What musician does Kevin Young name as the most prominent example of a white person living as a black person?
(a) Bobby Darin.
(b) Little Richard.
(c) Rufus Wainwright.
(d) Johnny Otis.

4. 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)
(a) They have not been out of the house or been online.
(b) They have not read the newspapers or watched the news.
(c) They have not opened their eyes or taken a walk.
(d) They have not watched a sitcom or read a book.

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

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

7. When the author and her friend laugh at the immediate thought of getting one's child out of the country upon his birth, what is NOT named as one of the sources of their laughter?
(a) Vulnerability.
(b) Mirth.
(c) Fear.
(d) An absurd stuckness.

8. When all flags in the United States flew at half staff after the killings at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, which state did not lower its Confederate flag on state-house grounds?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Alabama.

9. 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 turn away.
(c) To show her son.
(d) To take a picture.

10. 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) Police Accountability.
(b) Public Safety.
(c) Freedom of Movement.
(d) Prosperity.

11. Over what river does The High Bridge in New York City pass?
(a) The East River.
(b) The Harlem River.
(c) The Bronx River.
(d) The Hudson River.

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

13. 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) Named him or nursed him.
(b) Painted the nursery or weaned him.
(c) Potty trained him or weaned him.
(d) Checked out of the hospital or brought him home.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What two qualities of his grandmother's does Kiese Laymon say he did not understand or feel inspired by until he heard his first OutKast album?

3. What record does The High Bridge hold within New York City?

4. When Kevin Young, the author of "Blacker Than Thou" outlines his next book for the reader, under what type of text does he say his new book falls?

5. What is the title of the widely-circulated comic depicting the significant difference between what a white mother says to her son as he walks out the door, versus what a black mother says to her son as he walks out the door?

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