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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. Besides Phillis Wheatley, at least how many other slaves did her master own during his lifetime?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 12.

2. What is the occasion bringing everyone together within the poem "Homegoing, A.D. by Kima Jones?
(a) A birth.
(b) A wedding anniversary.
(c) A wedding.
(d) A funeral.

3. Of what feeling does the author of "Lonely in America" say she had been trying to cure in herself as a "strategy to ward off future misery" (34)?
(a) Optimism.
(b) Joy.
(c) Depression.
(d) Hope.

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

5. In the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones, what kind of state does the narrator say she found out North Carolina is?
(a) Dry.
(b) Flat.
(c) Wide.
(d) Long.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author of "White Rage" states that the case of Connick vs. Thompson ruled that it was what "for a city prosecutor's staff to hide evidence that exonerated a black man who was rotting on death row for 14 years" (87)?

2. The author of "White Rage" states that while before the Great Recession, white Americans had four times more wealth than black Americans, by 2010 the gap had increased to how many times?

3. What is the title of Phillis Wheatley's most often-anthologized poem?

4. In a letter from Phillis Wheatley to the artist Obour Tanner, Wheatley relates the death of her mistress, saying that her mistress had treated her less like a "servant" (67) and more like a what?

5. 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?

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