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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 landmark could the author of "The Weight" see outside of the interns' office window?
(a) The Manhattan Bridge.
(b) Times Square.
(c) The Golden Gate Bridge.
(d) The Brooklyn Bridge.

2. How old was Trayvon Martin at the time he was killed?
(a) 21.
(b) 17.
(c) 19.
(d) 15.

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 distant relative" (65).
(d) "A kissing cousin" (65).

4. In the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones, what kind of state does the narrator say she found out North Carolina is?
(a) Dry.
(b) Flat.
(c) Wide.
(d) Long.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Phillis Wheatley's husband, who is being defended in the essay "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband"?

2. 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?

3. 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)?

4. What is the name of the U.S. Senator who is famous for opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1957 "so strenuously that he conducted the longest lone filibuster ever" for over 24 straight hours?

5. Jesmyn Ward's father is 51% Native American and is registered as a member of what tribe?

(see the answer key)

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