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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 city did the author of "Black and Blue" move in 1996 in order to attend college?
(a) Memphis.
(b) Orlando.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) Austin.

2. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say is directed toward her by the majority of Americans and has become her dark twin?
(a) Disdain.
(b) Contempt.
(c) Pity.
(d) Hatred.

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

4. What is NOT one of the services Mitchell Jackson says had been provided to him by one or all of his group of father figures?
(a) They had nurtured him.
(b) They had given him tough love when he needed it.
(c) They had bestowed him with wisdom.
(d) They had made sure he knew it was in him to surpass them.

5. What are the estimates regarding how often an African-American is now killed by police within the United States, circa 2018?
(a) Every 4-6 days.
(b) Every day.
(c) Every 5-8 days.
(d) Every 2-3 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?

2. How many years elapsed between the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama and the shootings at the Emanuel Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina?

3. A 2013 report by researchers at Brandeis University calculated that what fraction "of the collective wealth of African-American families was stripped away" (86) during the Great Recession?

4. In what New Orleans area cemetery is the author of "Lonely in America's" family buried?

5. The biography of Phillis Wheatley published in 1834 called Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, was written by a woman who claimed to be a what of Phillis Wheatley's former mistress?

(see the answer key)

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