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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 the essay "Where Do We Go from Here?", continual progress for African-Americans is claimed to be a what?
(a) A myth.
(b) A reason for hope.
(c) A moral certainty.
(d) A birthright.

2. What is the name of the U.S. Senator who is famous for opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1957 "so strenuously that he conducted the longest lone filibuster ever" for over 24 straight hours?
(a) Trent Lott.
(b) Thomas Carper.
(c) Strom Thurmond.
(d) Benjamin Cardin.

3. What tragic event had occurred the week before Emily Raboteau took her family on a walk over The High Bridge?
(a) The Columbine shootings.
(b) Tamir Rice's murder.
(c) Michael Brown's murder.
(d) The church massacre in Charleston.

4. When Kiese Laymon states all of the things that the album ATLliens brought him to love about himself, what is an item that is NOT on his list?
(a) His tendency to anger quickly.
(b) His Southernness.
(c) His celibate lifestyle.
(d) His blackness.

5. What activity does the author of "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution" say his wife is performing as he writes his letter to her?
(a) Writing her dissertation.
(b) Nursing their son.
(c) Grocery shopping.
(d) Sleeping.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of her essay "Cracking the Code," Jesmyn Ward states that she imagines that a longing for what element had been a part of all of her ancestors' lives?

2. When all flags in the United States flew at half staff after the killings at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, which state did not lower its Confederate flag on state-house grounds?

3. What does Kevin Young say in his essay "Blacker Than Thou" that "you have to do...with white people from time to time" (105)?

4. What object does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones smell that lets her know they are close to their destination?

5. At what type of factory did Kiese Laymon's grandmother work for 30 years?

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