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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Reckoning: "Black and Blue"; "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning"; "Know Your Rights!"; "Composite Pops".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who founded the college in Alabama that the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" attended?
(a) Plantation owners.
(b) The Baptist Church of Alabama.
(c) Former slaves.
(d) The NAACP.

2. The series of Know Your Rights murals were placed in all of New York City's burroughs, with the exception of which burrough?
(a) The Bronx.
(b) Staten Island.
(c) Brooklyn.
(d) Queens.

3. What major event happened upon Phillis Wheatley's return to America from London?
(a) She ran away from her master's home.
(b) She gave birth to her third child.
(c) She was freed.
(d) She found that her husband had died in her absence.

4. The author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" states that most of the information about Phillis Wheatley comes from a book published how many years after the poet's death?
(a) 50.
(b) 15.
(c) 25.
(d) 75.

5. The author of the essay "Black and Blue" states that seeing a lone woman walking at night in Jamaica was as common a sight as the sight of what mythic creature?
(a) Sasquatch.
(b) Leprechaun.
(c) Loch Ness Monster.
(d) Unicorn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" state was the demographic makeup of her school in the 1970s?

2. The author of "Where Do We Go from Here?" states that "we must know deep in our bones and in our hearts that if the ancestors survived" what, "we can survive anything" (62)?

3. What was the first OutKast album Kiese Laymon ever heard?

4. What belief does Mitchell Jackson hold that he underscores by calling it his "beating heart" (179)?

5. At what age had the author of the essay "Black and Blue" begun walking in Jamaica after dark?

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