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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Re-Enforcement (pages 75-88).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What 1986 event helped solidify the author's view that violence is inevitable?
(a) His mother iwa mugged.
(b) His father was shot.
(c) He fired his first weapon.
(d) A teenage boy pulled a gun.

2. Whom does the author describe as his "wedding ring"?
(a) His soul.
(b) God.
(c) His son.
(d) His wife.

3. What important skills did the author's mother teach him?
(a) How to cook and clean his clothes.
(b) How to pray.
(c) How to read and write.
(d) How to stretch a dollar.

4. What sense does the author describe experiencing as he watched television as a child?
(a) Hope.
(b) Injustice.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Jealousy.

5. What did the author's father collect?
(a) Art.
(b) Guns.
(c) Books.
(d) Cigars.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the memoir addressed?

2. How did Queen Nzinga address the social insult of the Dutch ambassador?

3. What is "The Mecca" that the author describes to his son?

4. Why did the author refrain from comforting his son when Michael Brown's killers were set free?

5. Why does the author believe Prince Jones was willing to die?

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