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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. What is the name of the college that the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" attended within a rural Alabama town?
(a) Carlsbad College.
(b) Affinity College.
(c) Trinity College.
(d) Talladega College.

2. Kevin Young begins his essay "Blacker Than Thou" by discussing which movie in which Steve Martin plays the lead role?
(a) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
(b) The Jerk.
(c) The Three Amigos.
(d) The Pink Panther.

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) The Bronx.
(c) Queens.
(d) Staten Island.

4. In what state did the author's mother in "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" grow up, ensconced in poverty?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Alabama.

5. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say she feels when she looks at the works collected in The Fire This Time?
(a) Dismay.
(b) Courage.
(c) Hope.
(d) Sadness.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In order to get away from the site of the murder of her son, Tamir Rice, Samaria Rice moved out of her Cleveland home and into what type of dwelling?

4. To which book of the Bible does the OutKast song "Da Art of Storytellin' (Pt. 2)" refer?

5. Which of her audiences does Kiese Laymon say his grandmother had considered to be the most important audience of her work?

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