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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. To what area of the United States does the author of "Lonely in America" say that her "cultural memory of slavery" is relegated?
(a) The West.
(b) The South.
(c) The East.
(d) The North.

2. At what university did Kevin Young teach for five years?
(a) The University of Washington.
(b) The University of Iowa.
(c) The University of Georgia.
(d) The University of Massachusetts.

3. How old was Tamir Rice at the time he was shot and killed by Cleveland police officers?
(a) 12.
(b) 20.
(c) 18.
(d) 16.

4. The author of "White Rage" states that the case of Connick vs. Thompson ruled that it was what "for a city prosecutor's staff to hide evidence that exonerated a black man who was rotting on death row for 14 years" (87)?
(a) Legal.
(b) Illegal.
(c) Unconstitutional.
(d) Justified.

5. How does the author of "Lonely in America" say she would likely have handled being enslaved?
(a) She would not have survived it.
(b) She would have developed a dissociative disorder.
(c) She would have run away.
(d) She would have slain her master.

Short Answer Questions

1. The self-help book that the author of "Lonely in America" tries to live by within the essay says that "to become free of disappointment, one must acknowledge the obvious, then" (37) do what?

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

3. What action does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, A.D." say that she and those with her perform "cuz gator made for water, but children born for land" (18)?

4. In the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones, what kind of state does the narrator say she found out North Carolina is?

5. At the end of her essay "Cracking the Code," Jesmyn Ward states that she imagines that a longing for what element had been a part of all of her ancestors' lives?

(see the answer key)

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