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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What name did Kiese Laymon call his grandmother?
2. Over what river does The High Bridge in New York City pass?
3. 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?
4. For which organization did Rachel Dolezal serve as a chapter president before the news broke that she was feigning her African-American ancestry?
5. What belief did Kiese Laymon's grandmother hold that he points to as the only reason he is alive?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is repetition employed within the poem "Queries of Unrest" and to what effect?
2. What is People's Justice and what is the organization's goal?
3. 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)?
4. What details does Kiese Laymon use in order to depict his grandmother's identity to the reader?
5. What does Kevin Young identify as the main problem with Rachel Dolezal's claim of African ancestry?
6. Name at least three actions that the author of "Composite Pops" attributes to all of the men he describes as Pops, his composite father.
7. Why does Kevin Young insert "[name withheld]" rather than naming the killer responsible for the murders in Charleston?
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 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?
10. What distinction does Kiese Laymon make between "stank" and "freshness" (118) in his essay "Da Art of Storytellin' (A Prequel)"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Determine the most prominent message inherent in Emily Raboteau's essay, "Know Your Rights!" and prove your claim about her message using concrete details from the essay.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze how the author of "Blacker Than Thou" uses humor as a way to gain entry into the serious subject of cultural appropriation both historical and current.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the use of Aristotle's appeals within a particular essay and how the author employs the three appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos in order to put forth a solid argument.
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