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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. For what ultimate purpose does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" start her search for primary sources regarding Phillis Wheatley's life?
(a) To discover more about her own identity.
(b) To write a series of poems about Phillis Wheatley.
(c) To publish a rebuttal to
(d) To write a collection of essays about freed slaves.

2. What is the main pastime depicted within the poem "The Tradition"?
(a) Playing baseball.
(b) Going for ice cream.
(c) Gardening.
(d) Playing the piano.

3. 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?
(a) Affinity College.
(b) Carlsbad College.
(c) Talladega College.
(d) Trinity College.

4. In what year did Phillis Wheatley sail to London for a six week period in order to promote her poetry?
(a) 1768.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1773.
(d) 1832.

5. Of what feeling does the author of "Lonely in America" say she had been trying to cure in herself as a "strategy to ward off future misery" (34)?
(a) Depression.
(b) Joy.
(c) Optimism.
(d) Hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?

2. In the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones, what kind of state does the narrator say she found out North Carolina is?

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

4. In what year was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?

5. Who was the author of Memoir and Poems of Phyllis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave?

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