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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the answer the poet supplies in "The Unanswerable?" to the question "When will there be peace on earth?"
(a) "When everyone is equal."
(b) "In 100 years."
(c) "When the earth falls 2 pieces!"
(d) "When U are free."

2. What group did Huey Newton found?
(a) The Black Panther Party for Self Defense.
(b) The Black Panther Party for Peace.
(c) The Black Panther Party for Justice.
(d) The Black Panther Party for Equal Right.

3. What are exposed "when your hero falls from grace" in "When Ure Hero Falls"?
(a) Powers.
(b) Riddles.
(c) Myths.
(d) Truths.

4. George Jackson was co-founder of what prison gang?
(a) The Black Guerrilla Family.
(b) The Black Curtain.
(c) The Black Panthers.
(d) The Black Aces.

5. To whom did the poet dedicate "When Ure Hero Falls"?
(a) "My Hero."
(b) "My Hero My Mother."
(c) "My Hero My Father.
(d) "My Father."

6. In "Government Assistance or My Soul," the poet writes that "All high school dropouts R not" what?
(a) On welfare.
(b) Lazy.
(c) Dumb.
(d) Poor.

7. What city is the executive and de facto national capital of South Africa?
(a) Johannesburg.
(b) Cape Town.
(c) Mangaung.
(d) Pretoria.

8. "Tears of a Teenage Mother" begins, "He's bragging about his new" what?
(a) Job.
(b) Car.
(c) Pants.
(d) Jordans.

9. In "A River That Flows Forever," the poet writes, "As long as some ____ / The River Flows Forever."
(a) Are angry.
(b) Suffer.
(c) Have love.
(d) Have pride.

10. Who was Tupac Shakur's stepfather?
(a) Surala Shakur.
(b) Mutulu Shakur.
(c) Barunu Shakur.
(d) Garala Shakur.

11. What was an underground, black nationalist-Marxist militant organization that operated in the United States from 1970 to 1981?
(a) The Black Power Movement.
(b) The Black Liberation Army.
(c) The Black Night.
(d) The Black Panthers.

12. When was Nelson Mandela born?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1928.

13. When did Ronald Reagan begin his term as U.S. President?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1985.

14. The poet writes in "Or My Soul" that he's in a country with no what?
(a) Borders.
(b) Path.
(c) Army.
(d) Flag.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was liberty misquoted by in "Liberty Needs Glasses"?

2. What does Shakur refer to Ronald Reagan as in "Liberty Needs Glasses"?

3. Shakur concludes "Liberty Needs Glasses" with the lines, "I mean really if anyone really valued life / and cared about the masses / They'd take 'em both 2 ____ / and get 2 pairs of glasses."

4. In "Family Tree," the poet asks whether the beauty is in the tree or in what?

5. "Nightmares" is dedicated to whom?

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