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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the poet say his "negative side" will want to do in "Black Woman"?
(a) "Dominate U."
(b) "Know U."
(c) "Change U."
(d) "Break U."

2. Whose blood does the poet write of being in his veins in "For Mrs. Hawkins"?
(a) Mohammed.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Ghandi.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. What line follows "Together we can never fall" in "If There Be Pain"?
(a) "Because we are on the ball."
(b) "Because I'm at the mall."
(c) "Because we've heard the call."
(d) "Because our love will conquer all."

4. What did "they" order the execution of in "Just a Breath of Freedom"?
(a) "All minds they couldn't control."
(b) "Intelligence."
(c) "Active Imaginations."
(d) "Free thinking."

5. "What Is It That I Search 4" Shakur writes, "Just as no one knows / what lies beyond the _____ / I will never find the answer 2 / what it is that I search 4."
(a) Shore.
(b) Moon.
(c) Wall.
(d) Door.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the fourth thing the poet lists in "Things That Make Hearts Break"?

2. How are the tears described in "Sometimes I Cry"?

3. What is the first line of "Just a Breath of Freedom"?

4. In "And Still I Love U," what follows the lines, "I don't have everything / as a matter of fact I don't have anything"?

5. To whom is "Family Tree" dedicated?

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