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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. A 2016 joint report by the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund states that the Republicans' plan to emphasize identification requirements would adversely affect how many African-American voters?
(a) Three million.
(b) Ten million.
(c) Eight million.
(d) Six million.

2. What is the name of the editor who curated the works in The Fire This Time?
(a) Jesmyn Ward.
(b) Jasmine Walker.
(c) Jessica Walsh.
(d) James Thurber.

3. What landmark could the author of "The Weight" see outside of the interns' office window?
(a) Times Square.
(b) The Manhattan Bridge.
(c) The Golden Gate Bridge.
(d) The Brooklyn Bridge.

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

5. In the essay "Where Do We Go from Here?", continual progress for African-Americans is claimed to be a what?
(a) A reason for hope.
(b) A moral certainty.
(c) A birthright.
(d) A myth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what location did Granddaddy die within Kima Jones's poem "Homegoing, A.D."?

3. In what social media platform did Jesmyn Ward find solace after Trayvon Martin's death?

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

5. How does the author of "Lonely in America" say she would likely have handled being enslaved?

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