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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Tradition"; Introduction; Part I, Legacy: "Homegoing, AD"; "The Weight"; "Lonely in America".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say is directed toward her by the majority of Americans and has become her dark twin?
(a) Disdain.
(b) Contempt.
(c) Pity.
(d) Hatred.

2. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say she feels when she looks at the works collected in The Fire This Time?
(a) Courage.
(b) Dismay.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Hope.

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

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

5. What object does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones smell that lets her know they are close to their destination?
(a) The sea air.
(b) The magnolia tree.
(c) The popping corn.
(d) The paper mill.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what New Orleans area cemetery is the author of "Lonely in America's" family buried?

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

3. What two adjectives does the author of the "The Weight" use to describe the whiteness of the magazine's offices?

4. In what state was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?

5. In what city does the author of "The Weight" meet his friend in order to visit the house in which James Baldwin died?

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