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Don't Call Us Dead Quiz

Danez Smith

This Study Guide consists of approximately 53 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Don't Call Us Dead.

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

Why is Shakespeare’s Othello an appropriate allusion in the poem “O nigga O”? (from Pages 23 - 36)

The play’s composition and the early use of the n-word coincide historically.

The play Othello and the poem “O nigga O” both depict interracial relationships.

The play is one of the sources of a long-running cultural depiction of black male sexuality as aggressive and dangerous.

The text of the play addresses racial prejudice and sexuality, but the play’s performance history has been frequently problematic.

2.

The word “honey” occurs throughout the fourth section of the collection. What does it symbolize? (from Pages 73 - 82)

Love.

Healing.

Passion.

Safety.

3.

Why is it meaningful that the shortest section of the poem is the speaker’s response to his killer? (from Pages 1 - 22)

Even in the setting of the speaker’s own poem, the police officer denies his right to speak.

The answers to his questions are so obvious that they do not require answers.

The speaker knows these questions will never be answered.

The brevity emphasizes the bewilderment and anger behind the speaker’s questions.

4.

When the speaker of “last summer of innocence” says that he played football “& believed its salvation, its antidote,” what does he mean (29)? (from Pages 23 - 36)

Football offered a safe alternative activity to the more dangerous ones available in the speaker’s community.

Football offered the speaker and his friends innocent play before they had to grow up and face the world.

Football is associated with masculinity, which the speaker’s burgeoning sexuality seemed to undermine.

Football is an American tradition in which both white and black people can participate freely.

5.

How does the format of the second section of “recklessly” contribute to the poem’s tone? (from Pages 37 - 52)

It mimics the idea of rushing and recklessness.

It produces confusion and uncertainty.

It is as messy as the situation it describes.

It requires close and careful reading, just like Johnson’s case.

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