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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 adverb is repeated 14 times within the poem "Queries of Unrest"?
2. 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?
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?
4. 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?
5. What name did Kiese Laymon call his grandmother?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Kevin Young identify as the main problem with Rachel Dolezal's claim of African ancestry?
2. What is People's Justice and what is the organization's goal?
3. How does the poem "Queries of Unrest" connect to the part of the collection that it opens, entitled Reckoning?
4. Name at least three actions that the author of "Composite Pops" attributes to all of the men he describes as Pops, his composite father.
5. 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?
6. What event does the author of "Composite Pops" name as the one that taught him that he must be able to save himself?
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 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?
9. What does Garnette Cadogan mean when he writes that "the way home became home" (130) during his childhood in Jamaica?
10. How is repetition employed within the poem "Queries of Unrest" and to what effect?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Daniel Jose Older's purpose in choosing the form of a letter to write his piece "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution." How does the form chosen serve to further his included messages and themes?
Essay Topic 2
Despite the overwhelming gravity of the topic of racial injustice within modern America, Jesmyn Ward speaks to her feelings of hope when looking at the pieces collected within The Fire This Time. Choose three works that contain the theme of hope and discuss how the pieces' messages come together and how they link back to Jesmyn Ward's comments regarding hope in her introduction to the collection.
Essay Topic 3
Choose two of the poems contained in The Fire This Time and write an essay comparing and contrasting their respective messages and literary techniques.
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