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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. For which organization did Rachel Dolezal serve as a chapter president before the news broke that she was feigning her African-American ancestry?
2. What name did Kiese Laymon call his grandmother?
3. In what decade did the the use of blackface begin?
4. What record does The High Bridge hold within New York City?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. What details does Kiese Laymon use in order to depict his grandmother's identity to the reader?
2. What was the object mentioned in the very first lines of OutKast's music first heard by Kiese Laymon and why did the object's mention draw him in?
3. Who does Claudia Rankine name as the person who created "a new pathway for how to think about a lynched body" (147) and what does she mean?
4. What distinction does Kiese Laymon make between "stank" and "freshness" (118) in his essay "Da Art of Storytellin' (A Prequel)"?
5. Name at least three actions that the author of "Composite Pops" attributes to all of the men he describes as Pops, his composite father.
6. What does Garnette Cadogan mean when he writes that "the way home became home" (130) during his childhood in Jamaica?
7. What does Kevin Young write is one of the best things about being black?
8. What two categories does Kevin Young say white thinking or acting out about being black almost always fall into and what example does he give for each category he names?
9. Why does Garnette Cadogan hold out hope that he will not encounter the same problems while walking in New York City that he had while walking in New Orleans?
10. What does Kevin Young identify as the main problem with Rachel Dolezal's claim of African ancestry?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss Daniel Jose Older's purpose in choosing the form of a letter to write his piece "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution." How does the form chosen serve to further his included messages and themes?
Essay Topic 2
Conduct a deep analysis of Garnette Cadogan's intended audience for his essay "Black and Blue." What are the characteristics of his intended audience and what elements of his essay prove the characteristics he expects his audience to have? Be sure to amply prove your determinations of audience characteristics using concrete details and examples from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss how the theme of expectation versus reality is explored within the collection The Fire This Time.
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