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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. How many years apart does the author of "The Weight" say his grandfather's age and James Baldwin's age had been?
(a) 12.
(b) 7.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

2. What is the main pastime depicted within the poem "The Tradition"?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Playing baseball.
(c) Playing the piano.
(d) Going for ice cream.

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

4. What does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" state was the demographic makeup of her school in the 1970s?
(a) 99% African-American.
(b) 23% African-American, 48% Caucasian, and 29% Native American.
(c) 99% Caucasian.
(d) 48% African American and 52% Caucasian.

5. 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?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 2/3.
(c) 1/2.
(d) 3/4.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of trees does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones see that let her know they are close to their destination?

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

3. At the end of her essay "Cracking the Code," Jesmyn Ward states that she imagines that a longing for what element had been a part of all of her ancestors' lives?

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

5. How does the author of "Lonely in America" say she would likely have handled being enslaved?

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