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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 is the name of the college that the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" attended within a rural Alabama town?
(a) Affinity College.
(b) Talladega College.
(c) Trinity College.
(d) Carlsbad College.

2. What other types of work had the editor published before curating The Fire This Time?
(a) Novels and short stories.
(b) Newspaper articles and novels.
(c) Poetry and short stories.
(d) Novels and memoirs.

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

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

5. What type of internship had the author of "The Weight" been completing when he had first fallen wholly in the love with James Baldwin's works?
(a) A reporting internship.
(b) A professorial internship.
(c) A publishing internship.
(d) A carpentry internship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones smell that lets her know they are close to their destination?

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

3. Who was the author of Memoir and Poems of Phyllis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave?

4. How many hours does the road trip described in "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones last?

5. In what city was an eighteenth century gravesite discovered that contained 13 people of African ancestry?

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