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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. In his essay "Blacker Than Thou," Kevin Young says that "racism's daily injustices are almost" a what "against it" (112)?
2. What is NOT one of the services Mitchell Jackson says had been provided to him by one or all of his group of father figures?
3. 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?
4. When the author of the essay "Black and Blue" was warned by university officials to avoid walking in certain areas of the city, what threat does he mistakenly think he is being warned about?
5. To which book of the Bible does the OutKast song "Da Art of Storytellin' (Pt. 2)" refer?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What does Kevin Young identify as the main problem with Rachel Dolezal's claim of African ancestry?
3. 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?
4. What details does Kiese Laymon use in order to depict his grandmother's identity to the reader?
5. 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?
6. In what ways did Kiese Laymon feel validated and inspired by the words of Andre 3000 at the Source Awards of 1995?
7. How does the poem "Queries of Unrest" connect to the part of the collection that it opens, entitled Reckoning?
8. What does Garnette Cadogan mean when he writes that "the way home became home" (130) during his childhood in Jamaica?
9. 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?
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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss how the theme of expectation versus reality is explored within the collection The Fire This Time.
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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