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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. In what year did Phillis Wheatley sail to London for a six week period in order to promote her poetry?
(a) 1768.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1773.
(d) 1832.

2. What does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" name as her own mother's voice type?
(a) Alto.
(b) Bass.
(c) Soprano.
(d) Tenor.

3. Who else in Jesmyn Ward's family gets genetic testing done at the same time she does?
(a) Her mother and her father.
(b) Her father and her uncle.
(c) Her father and her brother.
(d) Her mother and her sister.

4. What two reptiles are the source of the danger during the final scene of Kima Jones's prose poem "Homegoing, A.D."?
(a) Brown rattlesnakes and chameleons.
(b) Poison Dart frogs and salamanders.
(c) Copperhead snakes and alligators.
(d) Crocodiles and Gila monsters.

5. How often do historians say lynchings of African-Americans occurred in the early decades of the twentieth century?
(a) Every month.
(b) Every day.
(c) Every week.
(d) Every four days.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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. The author of "Where Do We Go from Here?" states that "we must know deep in our bones and in our hearts that if the ancestors survived" what, "we can survive anything" (62)?

5. What other types of work had the editor published before curating The Fire This Time?

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