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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

According to the narrator as a young man, what problem faces the black community? (from City Lites: An Interlude – Too Many Mexicans, Chapter 15)

A lack of community reinvestment.

Democrats.

Opportunity kicked aside.

Class divisions.

2.

How many direct acts of racism has the narrator experienced in his lifetime? (from City Lites: An Interlude – Too Many Mexicans, Chapter 15)

Three.

One.

Five.

Ten.

3.

Hood Day is notable in the year of segregation for what? (from Apples and Oranges, Chapter 21 – Epilogue)

Community pride.

A day of mourning.

An increase in violence.

A lack of violence.

4.

Why does the narrator argue that the word "nigger" should be left in classic literature? (from The Shit You Shovel, Chapter 6 – Exact Change, or Zen and the Art of Bus Riding and Relationship Repair, Chapter 10)

Foy is trying to make money off the backs of people who have already written.

Shetlering people from reality and history does them more harm than good.

Foy has stolen ideas from other people in the past, such as the narrator's father.

Nothing can alter the perception of timeless literature.

5.

What, according to the narrator, should be the fourth stage of the black identity? (from Apples and Oranges, Chapter 21 – Epilogue)

Metamorphosis.

Unmitigated Blackness.

Integrating Blackness to Race Neutrality.

Unrepentant Blackness.

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