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

2. How many men does Mitchell Jackson name as belonging to his group of father figures?
(a) Four.
(b) Seven.
(c) Six.
(d) Five.

3. For how many years had The High Bridge been inactive before reopening again just before Emily Raboteau and her family took a walk across it?
(a) Fifty-plus.
(b) Twenty-plus.
(c) Forty-plus.
(d) Thirty-plus.

4. 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) Alabama.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Kentucky.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What belief does Mitchell Jackson hold that he underscores by calling it his "beating heart" (179)?

3. Over what river does The High Bridge in New York City pass?

4. Which of her audiences does Kiese Laymon say his grandmother had considered to be the most important audience of her work?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. Why does Kevin Young insert "[name withheld]" rather than naming the killer responsible for the murders in Charleston?

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. 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?

7. What two categories does Kevin Young say white thinking or acting out about being black almost always fall into and what example does he give for each category he names?

8. What event does the author of "Composite Pops" name as the one that taught him that he must be able to save himself?

9. What contrast does the author of "Black and Blue" set up by using a quote from Fats Waller and a quote by Walt Whitman prior to the body of his essay?

10. How does Garnette Cadogan misunderstand the advice of the university officials who tell him to walk only in certain areas of New Orleans after his move there to attend college?

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