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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Legacy: "Where Do We Go from Here?"; "The Dear Pledges of Our Love: A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband"; "White Rage"; "Cracking the Code".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Youngest intern.
(c) First gay intern.
(d) Least educated intern.

2. 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 West.
(b) The North.
(c) The East.
(d) The South.

3. Besides Phillis Wheatley, at least how many other slaves did her master own during his lifetime?
(a) 1.
(b) 6.
(c) 12.
(d) 2.

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

5. While Jesmyn Ward's father was born in Pass Christian, Mississippi, to what California city had he moved as a teenager in 1969?
(a) Vallejo.
(b) Oakland.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Los Angeles.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What action does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, A.D." say that she and those with her perform "cuz gator made for water, but children born for land" (18)?

3. In what year did Phillis Wheatley sail to London for a six week period in order to promote her poetry?

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

5. The author of "White Rage" states that the case of Connick vs. Thompson ruled that it was what "for a city prosecutor's staff to hide evidence that exonerated a black man who was rotting on death row for 14 years" (87)?

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