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

2. Who founded the college in Alabama that the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" attended?
(a) The NAACP.
(b) Plantation owners.
(c) The Baptist Church of Alabama.
(d) Former slaves.

3. A 2016 joint report by the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund states that the Republicans' plan to emphasize identification requirements would adversely affect how many African-American voters?
(a) Six million.
(b) Ten million.
(c) Three million.
(d) Eight million.

4. Once the author of "The Weight" stopped reading James Baldwin's works in order to separate his own work from that of James Baldwin's, what is NOT one author he mentions reading voraciously?
(a) Bell hooks.
(b) Sergei Dovlatov.
(c) Henry Dumas.
(d) Ralph Ellison.

5. How often do historians say lynchings of African-Americans occurred in the early decades of the twentieth century?
(a) Every month.
(b) Every four days.
(c) Every week.
(d) Every day.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones, what kind of state does the narrator say she found out North Carolina is?

2. 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)?

3. Whose original literary work inspired the title of The Fire This Time?

4. 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?

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

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