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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. How many years apart does the author of "The Weight" say his grandfather's age and James Baldwin's age had been?
(a) 12.
(b) 7.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

2. To what area of the United States does the author of "Lonely in America" say that her "cultural memory of slavery" is relegated?
(a) The North.
(b) The West.
(c) The East.
(d) The South.

3. What is the name of the era in which African-Americans made leaps in advancement just after the end of slavery?
(a) Renaissance.
(b) Reconstruction.
(c) Revitalization.
(d) Restoration.

4. At the end of her essay "Cracking the Code," Jesmyn Ward states that she imagines that a longing for what element had been a part of all of her ancestors' lives?
(a) The longing to be heard.
(b) The longing to belong.
(c) The longing to be understood.
(d) The longing for independence.

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?
(a) Embrace it.
(b) Forget about it.
(c) Learn to live with it.
(d) Become familiar with its underpinnings..

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?

2. 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?

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

4. The author of "Where Do We Go from Here?" states that "we must know deep in our bones and in our hearts that if the ancestors survived" what, "we can survive anything" (62)?

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

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