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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 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?
(a) A publishing internship.
(b) A carpentry internship.
(c) A reporting internship.
(d) A professorial internship.

2. What term did the historians referred to in "Where Do We Go from Here?" use to describe the last reversal of African-American advancement?
(a) The Fakir.
(b) The Chasm.
(c) The Nadir.
(d) The Fatwa.

3. To what area of the United States does the author of "Lonely in America" say that her "cultural memory of slavery" is relegated?
(a) The East.
(b) The West.
(c) The North.
(d) The South.

4. In what New Orleans area cemetery is the author of "Lonely in America's" family buried?
(a) Calvary Cemetery.
(b) Holt Cemetery.
(c) Greenwood Cemetery.
(d) Normandy Cemetery.

5. 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 anniversary.
(d) A wedding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say is directed toward her by the majority of Americans and has become her dark twin?

2. How often do historians say lynchings of African-Americans occurred in the early decades of the twentieth century?

3. What adjective does the writer of "The Weight" use to describe the black narrative within the United States?

4. How many books of Phillis Wheatley's poetry were published during her lifetime?

5. How old was Trayvon Martin at the time he was killed?

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