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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 type of internship had the author of "The Weight" been completing when he had first fallen wholly in the love with James Baldwin's works?
(a) A professorial internship.
(b) A publishing internship.
(c) A carpentry internship.
(d) A reporting internship.

2. How does the author of "Lonely in America" say she would likely have handled being enslaved?
(a) She would not have survived it.
(b) She would have developed a dissociative disorder.
(c) She would have slain her master.
(d) She would have run away.

3. What is the name of the police officer who shot Trayvon Martin?
(a) Frank Garmback.
(b) Roy Oliver.
(c) George Zimmerman.
(d) Timothy Loehmann.

4. What landmark could the author of "The Weight" see outside of the interns' office window?
(a) The Golden Gate Bridge.
(b) Times Square.
(c) The Brooklyn Bridge.
(d) The Manhattan Bridge.

5. To what area of the United States does the author of "Lonely in America" say that her "cultural memory of slavery" is relegated?
(a) The East.
(b) The North.
(c) The West.
(d) The South.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say is directed toward her by the majority of Americans and has become her dark twin?

2. In what location did Granddaddy die within Kima Jones's poem "Homegoing, A.D."?

3. 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?

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

5. How old was Trayvon Martin at the time he was killed?

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