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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. What musician does Kevin Young name as the most prominent example of a white person living as a black person?
2. For which organization did Rachel Dolezal serve as a chapter president before the news broke that she was feigning her African-American ancestry?
3. For the completion of what task did Kiese Laymon's grandmother used to stay up late on Saturday nights?
4. To what danger is the author of the essay "Black and Blue" referring when he writes, "The streets had their own safety. Unlike at home, there I could be myself without fear of bodily harm" (130)?
5. Which of her audiences does Kiese Laymon say his grandmother had considered to be the most important audience of her work?
Short Essay Questions
1. At the start of the essay "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning," why do the two women talking about one's recent arrival of a son laugh when the new mother says her first thought had been how she could get her baby boy out of America?
2. What does Kevin Young write is one of the best things about being black?
3. How does Emily Raboteau say she wishes to distinguish her role as a mother from both types of mothers depicted in the widely-circulated comic entitled "Still Two Americas"?
4. 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?
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. How does Kevin Young, the author of the essay "Blacker Than Thou" support his point that similarities and solidarity among black people are more about culture than about physical appearances?
7. How is paradox employed within the poem "Queries of Unrest" and to what effect?
8. What does Garnette Cadogan mean when he writes that "the way home became home" (130) during his childhood in Jamaica?
9. In what ways did Kiese Laymon feel validated and inspired by the words of Andre 3000 at the Source Awards of 1995?
10. How does the poem "Queries of Unrest" connect to the part of the collection that it opens, entitled Reckoning?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Several of the works within The Fire This Time focus on family relationships. Choose three of these works and discuss how they work together to send a larger message about race and family across the collection.
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
Explore the motifs of fire, water, and earth present within the works collected in The Fire This Time.
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