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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 rose prove wrong by learning to walk without feet in "The Rose That Grew from Concrete"?
(a) Nature's law.
(b) The law of nutrition.
(c) Gravitiy.
(d) The city's gardening ordinance.

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

3. "Government Assistance or My Soul" describes what animal imagery?
(a) A cheetah.
(b) A panther.
(c) A jaguar.
(d) A lion.

4. In "Life Through My Eyes," the poet writes "Life through my bloodshot eyes / would scare" what?
(a) "A square 2 death."
(b) "A child away."
(c) "A prisoner straight."
(d) "U away."

5. What is the fourth thing the poet lists in "Things That Make Hearts Break"?
(a) "Lonely children."
(b) "Pretty smiles."
(c) "Deceiving laughs."
(d) "People who dream with their eyes open."

Short Answer Questions

1. "Tears of a Teenage Mother" begins, "He's bragging about his new" what?

2. What is the third thing the poet lists in "Things That Make Hearts Break"?

3. In "The Mutual Heartache," Shakur writes, "U talk as I do but yet u don't / understand when I" what?

4. The poet concludes "I Know My Heart Has Lied Before" with the line "With All My Heart &" what?

5. What does the poet want to replace "the sorrow that u have encountered in the past" in "Black Woman"?

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