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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Self-Awareness (pages 88-108).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to the author, America believes itself to be:
(a) Understanding.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Pure.
(d) Exceptional.

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 Brown.
(c) Michael Jackson.
(d) The author's grandmother.

5. Why did the author feel it was unnecessary to forgive the man who killed Prince Jones?
(a) The man needed to forgive himself.
(b) Forgiveness does not bring back the dead.
(c) He was merely expressing America's beliefs about black men.
(d) He was dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author imagine white parents might tell their children?

2. What did the author learn from television as a young boy?

3. What is the "one-drop" rule?

4. Why does the author feel the interview at the beginning of his memoir was a failure?

5. What does the author mean when he says black children are told to be "twice as good"?

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