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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Legacy: "Where Do We Go from Here?"; "The Dear Pledges of Our Love: A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband"; "White Rage"; "Cracking the Code".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Phillis Wheatley's most often-anthologized poem?
(a) "The Spider and the Fly."
(b) "On Being Brought from Africa to America."
(c) "To My Dear and Loving Husband."
(d) "Upon the Burning of Our House."

2. What adjective does the writer of "The Weight" use to describe the black narrative within the United States?
(a) Quixotic.
(b) Problematic.
(c) Fractured.
(d) Linear.

3. A 2016 joint report by the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund states that the Republicans' plan to emphasize identification requirements would adversely affect how many African-American voters?
(a) Ten million.
(b) Three million.
(c) Eight million.
(d) Six million.

4. What is the occasion bringing everyone together within the poem "Homegoing, A.D. by Kima Jones?
(a) A funeral.
(b) A birth.
(c) A wedding.
(d) A wedding anniversary.

5. In what social media platform did Jesmyn Ward find solace after Trayvon Martin's death?
(a) Foursquare.
(b) Facebook.
(c) Twitter.
(d) Snapchat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two adjectives does the author of the "The Weight" use to describe the whiteness of the magazine's offices?

2. In the essay "Where Do We Go from Here?", continual progress for African-Americans is claimed to be a what?

3. What finding in the results of Jesmyn Ward's genetic testing results shocked her?

4. What topic is NOT listed among the issues that the author of "Lonely in America" feels unable to fixate upon in order to dispel her sense of loneliness?

5. What is the name of the college that the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" attended within a rural Alabama town?

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