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

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

3. What was the first name of Phillis Wheatley's mistress?
(a) Savannah.
(b) Susannah.
(c) Melanie.
(d) Clementine.

4. In what state was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?
(a) Florida.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Tennessee.

5. In what location did Granddaddy die within Kima Jones's poem "Homegoing, A.D."?
(a) In the backyard.
(b) On the porch.
(c) In the bathtub.
(d) In his bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years apart does the author of "The Weight" say his grandfather's age and James Baldwin's age had been?

2. The biography of Phillis Wheatley published in 1834 called Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, was written by a woman who claimed to be a what of Phillis Wheatley's former mistress?

3. 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)?

4. Once the author of "The Weight" stopped reading James Baldwin's works in order to separate his own work from that of James Baldwin's, what is NOT one author he mentions reading voraciously?

5. How does the author of "Lonely in America" say she would likely have handled being enslaved?

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