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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. In what New Orleans area cemetery is the author of "Lonely in America's" family buried?
(a) Normandy Cemetery.
(b) Calvary Cemetery.
(c) Holt Cemetery.
(d) Greenwood Cemetery.

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

3. In what Jamaican city did Garnette Cadogan, the author of the essay "Black and Blue," grow up?
(a) Kingston.
(b) Montego Bay.
(c) Portmore.
(d) Negril.

4. In what country did Rachel Dolezal falsely claim to have lived?
(a) Zimbabwe.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Jordan.
(d) Nigeria.

5. In what city does the author of "The Weight" meet his friend in order to visit the house in which James Baldwin died?
(a) Nice.
(b) Paris.
(c) Lisbon.
(d) Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say she feels when she looks at the works collected in The Fire This Time?

2. How does the author of "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning" characterize the attempt by some white people to amend the language of the Black Lives Matter movement to All Lives Matter?

3. What two reptiles are the source of the danger during the final scene of Kima Jones's prose poem "Homegoing, A.D."?

4. 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?

5. How often do historians say lynchings of African-Americans occurred in the early decades of the twentieth century?

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