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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 old was Trayvon Martin at the time he was killed?
(a) 19.
(b) 17.
(c) 15.
(d) 21.

2. What term did the historians referred to in "Where Do We Go from Here?" use to describe the last reversal of African-American advancement?
(a) The Fakir.
(b) The Nadir.
(c) The Fatwa.
(d) The Chasm.

3. Whose original literary work inspired the title of The Fire This Time?
(a) James Baldwin.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Phyllis Wheatley.
(d) Ralph Ellison.

4. While Jesmyn Ward's father was born in Pass Christian, Mississippi, to what California city had he moved as a teenager in 1969?
(a) Vallejo.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Oakland.
(d) Los Angeles.

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) Soprano.
(b) Tenor.
(c) Bass.
(d) Alto.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" state was the demographic makeup of her school in the 1970s?

3. 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?

4. In the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones, what kind of state does the narrator say she found out North Carolina is?

5. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say is directed toward her by the majority of Americans and has become her dark twin?

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