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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The last line of "The Rose That Grew from Concrete" reads, "Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever" what?
(a) Wondered.
(b) Cared.
(c) Knew.
(d) Saw.

3. In "Family Tree," the poet asks whether the beauty is in the tree or in what?
(a) Sky.
(b) The forest.
(c) Leaves.
(d) Roots.

4. The poet claims in "Government Assistance or My Soul" that he would "go hungry and homeless" before what?
(a) "Filling out all the paperwork."
(b) "Taking handouts."
(c) "The American Government gets my soul."
(d) "Eating bad food."

5. For whom is "Just a Breath of Freedom" written?
(a) Nelson Mandela.
(b) Martin Luther King Jr.
(c) Harriet Tubman.
(d) Bob Marley.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "When Ure Heart Turns Cold," Shakur writes that "When your heart turns cold" it causes what?

2. Shakur writes in "Liberty Needs Glasses" that "Justice stubbed her Big Toe on" whom?

3. What line follows "I am not a perfectionist" in "The Eternal Lament"?

4. What single word is written in all capital letters in "In the Depths of Solitude"?

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

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