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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 action does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, A.D." say that she and those with her perform "cuz gator made for water, but children born for land" (18)?
(a) Lie down.
(b) Wave.
(c) Jump up and down.
(d) Run fast.

2. What other types of work had the editor published before curating The Fire This Time?
(a) Newspaper articles and novels.
(b) Novels and short stories.
(c) Poetry and short stories.
(d) Novels and memoirs.

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

4. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say is directed toward her by the majority of Americans and has become her dark twin?
(a) Contempt.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Disdain.
(d) Pity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. A 2013 report by researchers at Brandeis University calculated that what fraction "of the collective wealth of African-American families was stripped away" (86) during the Great Recession?

2. How many hours does the road trip described in "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones last?

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

4. While Jesmyn Ward's father was born in Pass Christian, Mississippi, to what California city had he moved as a teenager in 1969?

5. The self-help book that the author of "Lonely in America" tries to live by within the essay says that "to become free of disappointment, one must acknowledge the obvious, then" (37) do what?

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