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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Jubilee: "Theories of Time and Space"; "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution"; "Message to My Daughters".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what decade did the the use of blackface begin?
(a) 1790s.
(b) 1830s.
(c) 1860s.
(d) 1820s.

2. Where was the author of "Message to My Daughters" born?
(a) Haiti.
(b) The Bronx.
(c) Peru.
(d) Jamaica.

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

4. What author does the poem "Queries of Unrest" reference in its dedication?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) James Baldwin.
(d) Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib.

5. What singer does the author of "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution" quote when he states, "Revolution has sounded like a whisper" (201)?
(a) Lauryn Hill.
(b) Tracy Chapman.
(c) Bob Dylan.
(d) Erykah Badu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action does the author of "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution" say that one cannot take toward justice if it is to be achieved?

2. What record does The High Bridge hold within New York City?

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

4. Who wrote the line "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read" (214)?

5. In the essay "Where Do We Go from Here?", continual progress for African-Americans is claimed to be a what?

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