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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 company did Jesmyn Ward use in order to obtain a report of her genetic ancestry?
(a) Ancestry DNA.
(b) 23andMe.
(c) Living DNA.
(d) National Geographic Genographic Project.

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

3. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say she feels when she looks at the works collected in The Fire This Time?
(a) Courage.
(b) Dismay.
(c) Hope.
(d) Sadness.

4. In what social media platform did Jesmyn Ward find solace after Trayvon Martin's death?
(a) Twitter.
(b) Facebook.
(c) Snapchat.
(d) Foursquare.

5. 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?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 1/4.
(c) 3/4.
(d) 2/3.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main pastime depicted within the poem "The Tradition"?

2. How many African-Americans does the author of "Where Do We Go from Here?" say fled from the Jim Crow caste system enacted in the South?

3. What is the name of the U.S. Senator who is famous for opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1957 "so strenuously that he conducted the longest lone filibuster ever" for over 24 straight hours?

4. At what age did the poet Phillis Wheatley die?

5. 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?

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