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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. How many years apart does the author of "The Weight" say his grandfather's age and James Baldwin's age had been?
(a) 12.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

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

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?
(a) Embrace it.
(b) Forget about it.
(c) Learn to live with it.
(d) Become familiar with its underpinnings..

4. 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 carpentry internship.
(b) A professorial internship.
(c) A publishing internship.
(d) A reporting internship.

5. How many hours does the road trip described in "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones last?
(a) 14.
(b) 16.
(c) 20.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones, what kind of state does the narrator say she found out North Carolina is?

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

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?

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?

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