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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. Which of her audiences does Kiese Laymon say his grandmother had considered to be the most important audience of her work?
(a) Preceding Southern black women workers.
(b) Upcoming Southern black women workers.
(c) The women at her church.
(d) White male shift managers.

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

3. What company did Jesmyn Ward use in order to obtain a report of her genetic ancestry?
(a) Ancestry DNA.
(b) National Geographic Genographic Project.
(c) 23andMe.
(d) Living DNA.

4. What singer does the author of "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution" quote when he states, "Revolution has sounded like a whisper" (201)?
(a) Tracy Chapman.
(b) Erykah Badu.
(c) Bob Dylan.
(d) Lauryn Hill.

5. 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) "A kissing cousin" (65).
(b) "A collateral descendant" (65).
(c) "An incidental family member" (65).
(d) "A distant relative" (65).

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say she feels when she looks at the works collected in The Fire This Time?

2. 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?

3. What is the name of the police officer who shot Trayvon Martin?

4. While Jesmyn Ward's father was born in Pass Christian, Mississippi, to what California city had he moved as a teenager in 1969?

5. At what age did the author of "Message to My Daughters" move to Brooklyn?

(see the answer key)

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