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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 books of Phillis Wheatley's poetry were published during her lifetime?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) None.

2. How many hours does the road trip described in "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones last?
(a) 12.
(b) 16.
(c) 14.
(d) 20.

3. What finding in the results of Jesmyn Ward's genetic testing results shocked her?
(a) Her ancestry is only 33% African.
(b) Her ancestry is 68% European.
(c) Her ancestry is over 70% African.
(d) Her ancestry is 42% Native American.

4. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say she feels when she looks at the works collected in The Fire This Time?
(a) Dismay.
(b) Hope.
(c) Courage.
(d) Sadness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term did the historians referred to in "Where Do We Go from Here?" use to describe the last reversal of African-American advancement?

2. In the essay "Where Do We Go from Here?", continual progress for African-Americans is claimed to be a what?

3. The author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" states that most of the information about Phillis Wheatley comes from a book published how many years after the poet's death?

4. 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?

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

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