Men We Reaped
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- Q1With which place does Jesmyn most identify as "home"?Long BeachPass ChirtianDelisleNew Orleans10s
- Q2Who are Jesmyn's siblings?Charine, Demond, JoshuaJoshua, Nerissa, CharineAldon, Joshua, NerissaCJ, Nerissa, Charine10s
- Q3Where does Jesmyn complete her undergrad and graduate degrees?Berkeley and HarvardUCLA and UMASSStanford and MichiganNYU and Notre Dame10s
- Q4After Hurricane Camille, many black folks of the Gulf region flee to?New YorkOaklandChicagoHouston10s
- Q5Men We Reaped is taken from a quotation by whom?Harriet TubmanDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Frederick DouglassTa Nehisi Coates10s
- Q6The men who die in this memoir are:Roger, Aldon, Demond, Ronald, and HiltonAldon, Joshua, CJ, Roger, and HiltonJoshua, Deshawn, Jaden, Aldon, and RogerRoger, CJ, Demond, Ronald, and Joshua10s
- Q7The primary industries in the Gulf area at the time of this story were:Casinos and factory workHousekeeping and work on oil rigsLong haul trucking and teachingFactory work and fast food service10s
- Q8Racism came in to play in America as a way for Thomas Jefferson to:Legitimize the slaughter of IroquoisLegitimize his ownership of Africans as slavesConvince King George that the Americas should be freeRatify the Constitution10s
- Q9The Federalist Papers were created as a means to:Convince Native People to move to reservationsTo convince African slaves to mind their mastersConvince New Yorkers that women should have the right to voteConvince New Yorkers to vote to ratify the Constitution10s
- Q10The primary way in which Americans gain wealth is through?Property ownershipTrading on Wall StreetPutting money in their savings accountsSlave holding10s
- Q11After WWII, the GI Bill grossly illustrated the division betweenNative People and New European ImmigrantsWomen and MenWhite and Black folksWealthy and Poor10s
- Q12The 13th Amendment intended to abolish slavery, but it had a loop hole which lead toMass incarceration in the 20th centuryIncreased police shootings of Black AmericansIncreased domestic abuse of womenThe shrinking of land awarded to Native People10s
- Q13To Jesmyn Ward, the hole in the woods personifies her feelings ofAggression and fearAnxiety and angerDesire to live in New YorkDepression and worthlessness10s
- Q14Jesmyn's father left for many reasons, but she summarizes that it is becauseBlack men just want to Kung Fu fightBlack men are disinterested in raising kidsBlack men are inherently unfaithfulBlack men are seeking a dream they cannot obtain10s
- Q15What are the ways in which the first 4 men in Jesmyn's memoir die?Suicide by train, gang fight, stabbing, suicide by hangingPolice shooting, gang fight, overdose, car accidentDomestic abuse, stabbing, vicious dog attack, train accidentHeart attack, train accident, gun shot by drug runners, suicide by gun10s