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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Jubilee: "Theories of Time and Space"; "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution"; "Message to My Daughters".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the title of Phillis Wheatley's most often-anthologized poem?
(a) "The Spider and the Fly."
(b) "Upon the Burning of Our House."
(c) "To My Dear and Loving Husband."
(d) "On Being Brought from Africa to America."

3. What distinction does a senior editor announce as applying to the author of "The Weight" during the first week of his internship?
(a) First black intern.
(b) Least educated intern.
(c) First gay intern.
(d) Youngest intern.

4. In what Jamaican city did Garnette Cadogan, the author of the essay "Black and Blue," grow up?
(a) Montego Bay.
(b) Portmore.
(c) Kingston.
(d) Negril.

5. What tragic event had occurred the week before Emily Raboteau took her family on a walk over The High Bridge?
(a) The church massacre in Charleston.
(b) Michael Brown's murder.
(c) The Columbine shootings.
(d) Tamir Rice's murder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Part III of The Fire This Time?

2. In a letter from Phillis Wheatley to the artist Obour Tanner, Wheatley relates the death of her mistress, saying that her mistress had treated her less like a "servant" (67) and more like a what?

3. What major event happened upon Phillis Wheatley's return to America from London?

4. What record does The High Bridge hold within New York City?

5. In order to get away from the site of the murder of her son, Tamir Rice, Samaria Rice moved out of her Cleveland home and into what type of dwelling?

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