Full Book Quiz
What happens in the 7-11 parking lot when Coates is a kid?
What is another boy pulls a gun on him.
What does Coates have an unusual amount of access to as a child?
What is books.
Define Jeopardy.
What is a source of danger.
Define pragmatist.
What is someone who is a realist.
What is Coate's current profession?
What is journalist.
Which war is Coates most interested in?
What is the Civil War.
What emotion does Coates feel when the news anchor asks him about hope?
What is sadness.
What is an example of a prerogative?
What is it is Ms. Sully's prerogative as teacher to decide whether or not that behavior is allowed.
Define Diaspora.
What is a dispersion of something that was originally localized.
What is the first fast food restaurant to open in the US?
What is White Castle.
Why does the Coates family move to New York?
What is Samori's mom got a job there.
What concept does Coates believe Americans have made into a God?
What is democracy.
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And you must be responsible for the bodies of the powerful—the policeman who cracks you with a nightstick will quickly find his excuse in your _____ movements.
What is furtive.
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I had been reading and writing beyond the ____ of the schools all my life.
What is purview.
What is the name of the TRIBE that Aaron Huey presented his Ted talk on, and lived with for a duration?
What is the Lakota tribe of Sioux nation.
What does Coates see a picture of that makes him want to travel abroad? (Be specific!)
What is painted doors in Paris.
What is cold and without sympathy.
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I think now of the old rule that held that should a boy be set upon in someone else's chancy hood, his friends must stand with him, and they must all take their beating together. I now know that within this ____ lay the key to all living.
What is edict.
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The guns seemed to address this country, which invented the streets that secured them with ____ police, in its primary language—violence.
What is despotic.
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"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government ____ ____ ____, ____ ____ ____, ____ ____ ____, (400) shall not ____ ____ ____ ____.” (200)
What is of the people, by the people for the people; shall not perish from this earth.
Who is Samori named after?
What is a resister of the French Colonizers.
What are the "two heads of the same beast"?
What is streets and school.
Define Enclave and give an example.
What is an enclosed territory that is culturally distinct; ex. What is Chinatown, Little Italy, Vatican City, etc.
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Perhaps being named “black” had nothing to do with any of this; perhaps being named “black” was just someone’s name for being at the bottom, a human turned to object, object turned to ____.
What is pariah.
What is the name of ONE of Ms. Sully's two dogs?
What is Jame-O or Roscoe.