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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The poet concludes "Or My Soul" saying that he is giving what?
(a) "The Ultimatum."
(b) "Everything to Charity."
(c) "My Notice."
(d) "Nothing Up."

2. What does the poet say [you] raise in pride in "Just a Breath of Freedom"?
(a) "Expectations."
(b) "The Curtain of Oppression."
(c) "Your Regal Brow."
(d) "Your Flag."

3. What does Shakur refer to Ronald Reagan as in "Liberty Needs Glasses"?
(a) "Idiot."
(b) "Cowboy."
(c) "The Prez."
(d) "Ronnie."

4. "U R Ripping Us Apart!!!" is dedicated to what?
(a) Methamphetamine.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Crack.

5. 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."

6. Shakur concludes the poem "The Promise" stating, "Trickery does not succeed / with those with" what?
(a) "Fool-proof Glasses."
(b) "A Pure Heart."
(c) "Honest Hearts."
(d) "A Well Informed Mind."

7. Where does "the trees that grow against all odds" blossom in "Family Tree"?
(a) "In darkness."
(b) "In space."
(c) "Underwater."
(d) "In the desert."

8. When did Nelson Mandela serve as the President of South Africa?
(a) 1988-1993.
(b) 1990-1995.
(c) 1994 -1999.
(d) 1985-1990.

9. Geronimo ji-Jaga had what relationship with Tupac Shakur?
(a) He was a high school friend.
(b) They lived on the same block.
(c) They went to the same church.
(d) He was his godfather.

10. What figure cited in "Liberty Needs Glasses" is also known as Geronimo ji-Jaga?
(a) Geronimo Davis.
(b) Prince Geronimo.
(c) Geronimo Jones.
(d) Geronimo Pratt.

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

12. What autobiography did Huey Newton write?
(a) Suicidal Tendencies.
(b) Revolutionary Suicide.
(c) Suicide on My Mind.
(d) Suicide Storm.

13. Shakur writes in "When Ure Hero Falls," "when ure Hero falls so do" what?
(a) "Hopes and dreams."
(b) "The stars."
(c) "Ure villains."
(d) "Expectations."

14. The poet refers to "this white killer" as being what in "For Mrs. Hawkins"?
(a) "Mentally sick."
(b) "An evil monster."
(c) "Empty-minded."
(d) "Strong-willed."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was an underground, black nationalist-Marxist militant organization that operated in the United States from 1970 to 1981?

2. What is the answer the poet supplies in "The Unanswerable?" to the question "When will there be peace on earth?"

3. Where was George Jackson shot to death?

4. In "Government Assistance or My Soul," the poet writes that "All unemployed aren't" what?

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

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