Between the World and Me Quizzes

Between the World and Me Quiz 1

1 What year was the book written?
1990

2000

2010

2015
2 Where did Coates grow up?
Baltimore

New York

Detroit

Los Angeles
3 Who is the book written to?
His wife

Himself

His son

Black people
4 The book is in the form of a ___?
letter

poem

play

dialogue
5 The book opens with Coates ___?
giving an interview

meeting Obama

at a Civil War battlefield

at Howard's Hoemcoming
6 Coates says Americans deify ___?
democracy

race

money

fame
7 How does America see itself?
As flawed and human

As immoral

As a champion

As free from strife
8 "Racism is a ___ experience."
fading

visceral

false

traumatic
9 What is the name of white America's quest for comfort, wealth, and obliviousness?
The Goal

The Victory

The Dream

The Idea
10 What does white America brutalize?
The woman's body

The white body

The black body

The poor body
11 What religion does Coates believe in?
None; he is an atheist

Buddhism

Christianity

Islam
12 The black men Coates knew in Baltimore asserted themselves through all of the following EXCEPT ___?
guns

clothing

loud music and talk

education
13 What did Coates say his father did often?
Insult him

Yell at him

Embarrass him

Beat him
14 How did Coates survive the streets?
Learning the language

Hiding

Moving away

Becoming violent
15 What did Coates say he was robbed of as he prepared to go out into the streets?
Time

Youth

Safety

Love
16 What did Coates resent more than the streets?
The media

The church

School

His home
17 Their elders presented school as a place to/of ___?
refuge and community

satisfy curiosity

learning

escape death and prison
18 What was the point of the writing exercises Coates's grandmother made him do?
To be punished

To learn how to think

To learn how to write better

To stay off the streets
19 What was Coates's father involved in when he was younger?
Politics

The church

The Black Panther Party

Law enforcement
20 What bothered young Coates about the Civil Rights Movement?
That it had to be nonviolent

That it had religious people involved

That whites participated

That it failed
21 Who was Coates's first intellectual influence?
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Stokely Carmichael

James Baldwin

Malcolm X
22 Coates liked Malcolm X because ___?
he was moral

he wrote well

he was violent

he never lied
23 Coates admires all these aspects of Malcolm X EXCEPT ____?
his refusal to be your morality

his chafing at the schools

he was religious

he didn't want to make white people comfortable
24 What is Coates's profession?
Professor

Activist

Journalist

Lawyer
25 What was Samori crying about that Coates could not console him on?
The death of Prince Jones

The death of Trayvon Martin

The exoneration of the officer who killed Michael Brown

A street fight he'd seen

Identify 2 “Answers” that are being “Questioned” by the author in the first half and simply showcase what the author is suggesting should be “Unlearned,” and why.

I think this has to do with American tradition to "destroy the black body—it is heritage.”

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What does Coates mean when he says, “My understanding of the universe was physical, and its moral arc bent toward chaos then concluded in a box”? Explain.

I think that this is an allusion to Martin Luther King's quote except King said justice instead of box. Coates injects his own sense of fatalism, even realism,to this quote. The moral arc of American race relations has seldom ended in justince for...

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What Expressions of Resistance does this memoir highlight? What “call to arms” is found within this text? Is this resistance specific to certain groups or individuals, or is it more wide ranging in scope?

Coates is not optimistic or hopeful about things changing in America, but he does not counsel apathy or ambivalence. He tells Samori that he must continue to struggle everyday. He must not let his guard down or become complacent; he must fully...

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Answered by Aslan on 7/12/2023 2:12 AM

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