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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Reckoning: "Queries of Unrest"; "Blacker Than Thou"; "Da Art of Storytellin' (a Prequel)".

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. At what age did the poet Phillis Wheatley die?
(a) 34.
(b) 42.
(c) 38.
(d) 28.

3. The biography of Phillis Wheatley published in 1834 called Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, was written by a woman who claimed to be a what of Phillis Wheatley's former mistress?
(a) "An incidental family member" (65).
(b) "A collateral descendant" (65).
(c) "A kissing cousin" (65).
(d) "A distant relative" (65).

4. When all flags in the United States flew at half staff after the killings at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, which state did not lower its Confederate flag on state-house grounds?
(a) Alabama.
(b) South Carolina.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Kentucky.

5. The author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" states that most of the information about Phillis Wheatley comes from a book published how many years after the poet's death?
(a) 15.
(b) 75.
(c) 50.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the era in which African-Americans made leaps in advancement just after the end of slavery?

2. The author of "White Rage" states that while before the Great Recession, white Americans had four times more wealth than black Americans, by 2010 the gap had increased to how many times?

3. What type of internship had the author of "The Weight" been completing when he had first fallen wholly in the love with James Baldwin's works?

4. What is the name of the editor who curated the works in The Fire This Time?

5. Who founded the college in Alabama that the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" attended?

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