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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Dream (pages 108-132).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author admires Malcolm X because he never:
(a) Gave up.
(b) Lied.
(c) Hesitated.
(d) Ran.

2. What did the girl with the long dreads teach the author?
(a) Distrust.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Compassion.
(d) French.

3. The author views the school systems and the streets as:
(a) Opposite ends of a pole.
(b) Two warring nations.
(c) The different universes.
(d) Arms of the same beast.

4. How are racism and race linked?
(a) Categorizing people groups inevitably causes a power struggle.
(b) People don't like what they don't understand.
(c) They are both unfair.
(d) They are not linked.

5. As a child, what baffled the author about the nonviolent protests of the civil rights moment?
(a) He felt the police should have helped more.
(b) Violence is illegal.
(c) He had been raised in a violent society.
(d) Kids should not see violent television.

Short Answer Questions

1. What realization did the author make about death in the sixth grade?

2. What question does the author pose about assaulting an officer of the law?

3. Which writer inspired the author as a young man?

4. What is "The Dream" that Coats refers to?

5. According to the author, how much was the slave population worth at the start of the Civil War?

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