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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Rose By Any Other Name (pages 47-71).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sorts of toys was the author not allowed to have as a child?
(a) Those that used batteries.
(b) Anything made by Disney.
(c) Anything that was non-educational.
(d) Those with white faces.

2. How did Queen Nzinga address the social insult of the Dutch ambassador?
(a) She stood on the table.
(b) She ordered one of her advisers to become a human chair.
(c) She stabbed the ambassador.
(d) She sat on the ambassador's knee.

3. What realization did the author make about death in the sixth grade?
(a) Death can occur without warning.
(b) Death does not wait.
(c) Death chases after the living.
(d) Death is inevitable.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, who controls the streets of Baltimore?

2. How did the author's father react when another boy stole something from the author?

3. Whom did the girl with the long dreads love?

4. What realization does the author have about his university education?

5. What hobby did the author pursue while at Howard University?

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