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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. Who was the author of Memoir and Poems of Phyllis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave?
(a) Marie Ellen Magdalena.
(b) Jane Augusten Burroughs.
(c) Mary Margaret Johann.
(d) Margaretta Matilda Odell.

2. What distinction does a senior editor announce as applying to the author of "The Weight" during the first week of his internship?
(a) First gay intern.
(b) First black intern.
(c) Youngest intern.
(d) Least educated intern.

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

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

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

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. 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)?

3. While Jesmyn Ward's father was born in Pass Christian, Mississippi, to what California city had he moved as a teenager in 1969?

4. A 2013 report by researchers at Brandeis University calculated that what fraction "of the collective wealth of African-American families was stripped away" (86) during the Great Recession?

5. What major event happened upon Phillis Wheatley's return to America from London?

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