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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. In what social media platform did Jesmyn Ward find solace after Trayvon Martin's death?
(a) Snapchat.
(b) Twitter.
(c) Foursquare.
(d) Facebook.

2. 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) Ralph Ellison.
(b) Henry Dumas.
(c) Sergei Dovlatov.
(d) Bell hooks.

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)?
(a) Hope.
(b) Joy.
(c) Depression.
(d) Optimism.

4. Who else in Jesmyn Ward's family gets genetic testing done at the same time she does?
(a) Her mother and her sister.
(b) Her mother and her father.
(c) Her father and her brother.
(d) Her father and her uncle.

5. The author of "Where Do We Go from Here?" states that "we must know deep in our bones and in our hearts that if the ancestors survived" what, "we can survive anything" (62)?
(a) Jim Crow laws.
(b) Systemic racism.
(c) The indignities of slavery.
(d) The Middle Passage.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. What was the first name of Phillis Wheatley's mistress?

4. What is the name of the college that the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" attended within a rural Alabama town?

5. 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?

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