View a FREE sample

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 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?
(a) Thomas Carper.
(b) Trent Lott.
(c) Strom Thurmond.
(d) Benjamin Cardin.

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

3. 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 father and her uncle.
(c) Her father and her brother.
(d) Her mother and her father.

4. From what city did Phillis Wheatley's husband hail?
(a) Hartford.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Boston.
(d) Providence.

5. In what New Orleans area cemetery is the author of "Lonely in America's" family buried?
(a) Calvary Cemetery.
(b) Normandy Cemetery.
(c) Greenwood Cemetery.
(d) Holt Cemetery.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What landmark could the author of "The Weight" see outside of the interns' office window?

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. Besides Phillis Wheatley, at least how many other slaves did her master own during his lifetime?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 294 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample