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

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

3. To what city did the author of "Black and Blue" move in 1996 in order to attend college?
(a) Memphis.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Austin.
(d) Orlando.

4. In order to get away from the site of the murder of her son, Tamir Rice, Samaria Rice moved out of her Cleveland home and into what type of dwelling?
(a) A homeless shelter.
(b) A hotel.
(c) A relative's home.
(d) A condominium.

5. When Kiese Laymon invites his grandmother up to Oxford where he lives at the time, why does she refuse to come?
(a) Because her health is too poor for such a long trip.
(b) Because there is a music festival happening in her hometown.
(c) Because she does not like to infringe upon Kiese's privacy.
(d) Because Kiese is the only black person she knows in Oxford.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tragic event had occurred the week before Emily Raboteau took her family on a walk over The High Bridge?

2. What does Kevin Young say in his essay "Blacker Than Thou" that "you have to do...with white people from time to time" (105)?

3. When Kevin Young states that being black is not a feeling and is not "simply a state of mind" (109), what does he say blackness is instead?

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

5. What musician does Kevin Young name as the most prominent example of a white person living as a black person?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

4. What does the author of "Composite Pops" say that a boy must do if he is "not blessed with a father or gifted with a dynamic stand-in" (180)?

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

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

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

10. 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?

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