Between the World and Me Quizzes

Between the World and Me Quiz 1

1 What year was the book written?
2015

2010

1990

2000
2 Where did Coates grow up?
New York

Baltimore

Detroit

Los Angeles
3 Who is the book written to?
Himself

His wife

Black people

His son
4 The book is in the form of a ___?
dialogue

play

poem

letter
5 The book opens with Coates ___?
at a Civil War battlefield

meeting Obama

giving an interview

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

money

democracy

fame
7 How does America see itself?
As immoral

As a champion

As flawed and human

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

false

fading

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

The Victory

The Goal

The Dream
10 What does white America brutalize?
The poor body

The white body

The black body

The woman's body
11 What religion does Coates believe in?
Christianity

None; he is an atheist

Islam

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

education

clothing

loud music and talk
13 What did Coates say his father did often?
Insult him

Embarrass him

Yell at him

Beat him
14 How did Coates survive the streets?
Moving away

Becoming violent

Learning the language

Hiding
15 What did Coates say he was robbed of as he prepared to go out into the streets?
Youth

Safety

Time

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

His home

School

The media
17 Their elders presented school as a place to/of ___?
learning

refuge and community

escape death and prison

satisfy curiosity
18 What was the point of the writing exercises Coates's grandmother made him do?
To learn how to write better

To be punished

To learn how to think

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

The church

Politics

The Black Panther Party
20 What bothered young Coates about the Civil Rights Movement?
That it had to be nonviolent

That it failed

That whites participated

That it had religious people involved
21 Who was Coates's first intellectual influence?
Stokely Carmichael

Malcolm X

James Baldwin

Martin Luther King, Jr.
22 Coates liked Malcolm X because ___?
he wrote well

he was moral

he was violent

he never lied
23 Coates admires all these aspects of Malcolm X EXCEPT ____?
he didn't want to make white people comfortable

his chafing at the schools

his refusal to be your morality

he was religious
24 What is Coates's profession?
Activist

Lawyer

Professor

Journalist
25 What was Samori crying about that Coates could not console him on?
The death of Trayvon Martin

The exoneration of the officer who killed Michael Brown

The death of Prince Jones

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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