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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. In a letter from Phillis Wheatley to the artist Obour Tanner, Wheatley relates the death of her mistress, saying that her mistress had treated her less like a "servant" (67) and more like a what?
(a) A sister.
(b) A friend.
(c) An employee.
(d) A child.

2. The author of "White Rage" states that the case of Connick vs. Thompson ruled that it was what "for a city prosecutor's staff to hide evidence that exonerated a black man who was rotting on death row for 14 years" (87)?
(a) Justified.
(b) Unconstitutional.
(c) Illegal.
(d) Legal.

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) Talladega College.
(b) Affinity College.
(c) Carlsbad College.
(d) Trinity College.

4. In what year was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2013.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2014.

5. Whose original literary work inspired the title of The Fire This Time?
(a) Langston Hughes.
(b) Ralph Ellison.
(c) Phyllis Wheatley.
(d) James Baldwin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At what age did the poet Phillis Wheatley die?

3. What company did Jesmyn Ward use in order to obtain a report of her genetic ancestry?

4. What major event happened upon Phillis Wheatley's return to America from London?

5. How many African-Americans does the author of "Where Do We Go from Here?" say fled from the Jim Crow caste system enacted in the South?

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