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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what decade did the the use of blackface begin?
(a) 1820s.
(b) 1860s.
(c) 1830s.
(d) 1790s.

4. How does the author of "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning" characterize the attempt by some white people to amend the language of the Black Lives Matter movement to All Lives Matter?
(a) Ethnocentrism personified.
(b) Unintentional ignorance.
(c) Centralizing whiteness.
(d) Subliminal racism.

5. 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) Because her husband requested that she not be allowed to see his body.
(b) She was hysterical.
(c) His body was evidence.
(d) To keep the number of witnesses low.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. How old was Tamir Rice at the time he was shot and killed by Cleveland police officers?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Garnette Cadogan hold out hope that he will not encounter the same problems while walking in New York City that he had while walking in New Orleans?

2. At the start of the essay "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning," why do the two women talking about one's recent arrival of a son laugh when the new mother says her first thought had been how she could get her baby boy out of America?

3. How is paradox employed within the poem "Queries of Unrest" and to what effect?

4. What details does Kiese Laymon use in order to depict his grandmother's identity to the reader?

5. How does Emily Raboteau say she wishes to distinguish her role as a mother from both types of mothers depicted in the widely-circulated comic entitled "Still Two Americas"?

6. In what ways did Kiese Laymon feel validated and inspired by the words of Andre 3000 at the Source Awards of 1995?

7. How is repetition employed within the poem "Queries of Unrest" and to what effect?

8. What does Kevin Young write is one of the best things about being black?

9. How does Kevin Young, the author of the essay "Blacker Than Thou" support his point that similarities and solidarity among black people are more about culture than about physical appearances?

10. What was the object mentioned in the very first lines of OutKast's music first heard by Kiese Laymon and why did the object's mention draw him in?

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