Between the World and Me Quizzes

Between the World and Me Quiz 1

By Kristen Osborne-Bartucca · Last reviewed July 15, 2016

1 What year was the book written?

2000

2015

1990

2010
2 Where did Coates grow up?

Baltimore

Detroit

Los Angeles

New York
3 Who is the book written to?

Himself

Black people

His son

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

dialogue

play

letter

poem
5 The book opens with Coates ___?

giving an interview

at a Civil War battlefield

at Howard's Hoemcoming

meeting Obama
6 Coates says Americans deify ___?

money

fame

democracy

race
7 How does America see itself?

As immoral

As a champion

As flawed and human

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

false

traumatic

visceral

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

The Victory

The Idea

The Goal

The Dream
10 What does white America brutalize?

The white body

The poor body

The black body

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

None; he is an atheist

Islam

Christianity

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

education

clothing

guns

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

Insult him

Yell at him

Beat him

Embarrass him
14 How did Coates survive the streets?

Moving away

Hiding

Learning the language

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

Youth

Love

Safety

Time
16 What did Coates resent more than the streets?

The church

The media

His home

School
17 Their elders presented school as a place to/of ___?

refuge and community

satisfy curiosity

escape death and prison

learning
18 What was the point of the writing exercises Coates's grandmother made him do?

To stay off the streets

To learn how to write better

To be punished

To learn how to think
19 What was Coates's father involved in when he was younger?

The Black Panther Party

Politics

The church

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 it failed

That whites participated
21 Who was Coates's first intellectual influence?

Malcolm X

Stokely Carmichael

Martin Luther King, Jr.

James Baldwin
22 Coates liked Malcolm X because ___?

he was violent

he never lied

he was moral

he wrote well
23 Coates admires all these aspects of Malcolm X EXCEPT ____?

his refusal to be your morality

he didn't want to make white people comfortable

he was religious

his chafing at the schools
24 What is Coates's profession?

Journalist

Activist

Professor

Lawyer
25 What was Samori crying about that Coates could not console him on?

A street fight he'd seen

The death of Trayvon Martin

The exoneration of the officer who killed Michael Brown

The death of Prince Jones

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