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

2. At what university did Kevin Young teach for five years?
(a) The University of Iowa.
(b) The University of Washington.
(c) The University of Georgia.
(d) The University of Massachusetts.

3. 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) 64.
(c) 41.
(d) 52.

4. What tragic event had occurred the week before Emily Raboteau took her family on a walk over The High Bridge?
(a) The Columbine shootings.
(b) The church massacre in Charleston.
(c) Tamir Rice's murder.
(d) Michael Brown's murder.

5. 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) Burying.
(c) Planting.
(d) Ignoring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What song did President Barack Obama sing at the funeral for those killed in the Emanuel Mother Church massacre?

2. When Kiese Laymon was busy analyzing the Outkast song "Wailin'," what was he supposed to be doing instead?

3. What adverb is repeated 14 times within the poem "Queries of Unrest"?

4. At what type of factory did Kiese Laymon's grandmother work for 30 years?

5. The series of Know Your Rights murals were placed in all of New York City's burroughs, with the exception of which burrough?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is People's Justice and what is the organization's goal?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. What distinction does Kiese Laymon make between "stank" and "freshness" (118) in his essay "Da Art of Storytellin' (A Prequel)"?

5. 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?

6. 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?

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

8. What does Kevin Young identify as the main problem with Rachel Dolezal's claim of African ancestry?

9. 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"?

10. 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?

(see the answer keys)

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