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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. For how many hours was Michael Brown's body left facedown in the street after being shot six times by police in Ferguson?
(a) Six.
(b) Ten.
(c) Eight.
(d) Four.

2. For how many years had The High Bridge been inactive before reopening again just before Emily Raboteau and her family took a walk across it?
(a) Thirty-plus.
(b) Twenty-plus.
(c) Fifty-plus.
(d) Forty-plus.

3. What does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" name as her own mother's voice type?
(a) Soprano.
(b) Bass.
(c) Tenor.
(d) Alto.

4. In what town is the pier that the speaker of the poem "Theories of Time and Space" names as a dead end?
(a) Gulfport.
(b) Biloxi.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Tupelo.

5. What does the author of "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution" NOT list among the things that people are turned into by the crime of injustice?
(a) Killers.
(b) Suicides.
(c) Liars.
(d) Witnesses.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men does Mitchell Jackson name as belonging to his group of father figures?

2. In what country did Rachel Dolezal falsely claim to have lived?

3. What author does the poem "Queries of Unrest" reference in its dedication?

4. Which black female artist's work does Kiese Laymon set up as a counterpoint to the work of OutKast?

5. When the author of "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution" paraphrases Gil Scott-Heron, saying that "the revolution wasn't televised" (202), what does he say it was instead?

(see the answer key)

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