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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Emily Raboteau say had been the primary goal of the perpetrator of the previous week's tragedy on the day her family walks over The High Bridge?
(a) Driving black people back into segregation.
(b) Getting the police to shoot him.
(c) Making a statement about bullying.
(d) Igniting a race war.

2. 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?
(a) A hotel.
(b) A condominium.
(c) A homeless shelter.
(d) A relative's home.

3. The author of the essay "Black and Blue" imagined himself in childhood as the Jamaican version of what fictional character?
(a) Oliver Twist.
(b) Tom Sawyer.
(c) Holden Caulfield.
(d) Robinson Crusoe.

4. At what university did Kevin Young teach for five years?
(a) The University of Iowa.
(b) The University of Georgia.
(c) The University of Massachusetts.
(d) The University of Washington.

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

6. Why was Michael Brown's mother Lesley McSpadden prohibited from coming close to her son's body during the time he lay in the street?
(a) Because her husband requested that she not be allowed to see his body.
(b) His body was evidence.
(c) She was hysterical.
(d) To keep the number of witnesses low.

7. What belief did Kiese Laymon's grandmother hold that he points to as the only reason he is alive?
(a) Her belief that Kiese was a beautiful Southern black boy.
(b) Her belief that hard work could cure any ill.
(c) Her belief that what does not kill us makes us stronger.
(d) Her belief that he could grow up to be anyone he wanted.

8. When Kevin Young, the author of "Blacker Than Thou" outlines his next book for the reader, under what type of text does he say his new book falls?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Satire.
(c) Memoir.
(d) Nonfiction.

9. Which black female artist's work does Kiese Laymon set up as a counterpoint to the work of OutKast?
(a) Jill Scott.
(b) Queen Latifah.
(c) Lauryn Hill.
(d) Missy Elliott.

10. What two things does Kevin Young state that people must not have done in a while if they are surprised by "a white lady darkening her skin and curling her hair"? (106)
(a) They have not read the newspapers or watched the news.
(b) They have not watched a sitcom or read a book.
(c) They have not opened their eyes or taken a walk.
(d) They have not been out of the house or been online.

11. 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) Forty-plus.
(d) Fifty-plus.

12. The final line of the poem "Queries of Unrest" references "trying to save them the time of" doing what "to darkness when all they have to do is close their eyes" (100)?
(a) Ignoring.
(b) Planting.
(c) Witnessing.
(d) Burying.

13. When Kevin Young states that being black is not a feeling and is not "simply a state of mind" (109), what does he say blackness is instead?
(a) A way of acting.
(b) A way of believing.
(c) A way of living.
(d) A way of being.

14. To what city did the author of "Black and Blue" move in 1996 in order to attend college?
(a) Austin.
(b) Memphis.
(c) Orlando.
(d) New Orleans.

15. When Kiese Laymon invites his grandmother up to Oxford where he lives at the time, why does she refuse to come?
(a) Because she does not like to infringe upon Kiese's privacy.
(b) Because Kiese is the only black person she knows in Oxford.
(c) Because there is a music festival happening in her hometown.
(d) Because her health is too poor for such a long trip.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author of the essay "Black and Blue" states that seeing a lone woman walking at night in Jamaica was as common a sight as the sight of what mythic creature?

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. 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?

4. What does Emily Raboteau name as her first instinct when she first sees the first Know Your Rights mural in her neighborhood?

5. What was the first OutKast album Kiese Laymon ever heard?

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