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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Remembering Lest We Forget (pages 5 - 21).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What essential question does the author pose in his memoir?
(a) When will America be one?
(b) How can all people groups coexist?
(c) How do I live free in this black body?
(d) Who am I?

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

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

4. Whose death reminded the author that his world and his son's were one and the same?
(a) The author's father.
(b) Michael Jackson.
(c) The author's grandmother.
(d) Michael Brown.

5. What did the author learn from television as a young boy?
(a) There is hope for his escape.
(b) All children live in fear.
(c) The world is a terrifying place.
(d) There are children in other neighborhoods who do not live in fear.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author, America believes itself to be:

3. How old is the author's son at the time the memoir is written?

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

5. According to the author, when Lincoln spoke of the "government of the people," to whom was he addressing?

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