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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. 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)?
(a) The indignities of slavery.
(b) Systemic racism.
(c) Jim Crow laws.
(d) The Middle Passage.

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?
(a) A carpentry internship.
(b) A professorial internship.
(c) A publishing internship.
(d) A reporting internship.

3. In what year did Phillis Wheatley sail to London for a six week period in order to promote her poetry?
(a) 1832.
(b) 1773.
(c) 1768.
(d) 1901.

4. What is the main pastime depicted within the poem "The Tradition"?
(a) Gardening.
(b) Playing baseball.
(c) Going for ice cream.
(d) Playing the piano.

5. What does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" name as her own mother's voice type?
(a) Alto.
(b) Tenor.
(c) Bass.
(d) Soprano.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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)?

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

4. What topic is NOT listed among the issues that the author of "Lonely in America" feels unable to fixate upon in order to dispel her sense of loneliness?

5. To what area of the United States does the author of "Lonely in America" say that her "cultural memory of slavery" is relegated?

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