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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 two adjectives does the author of the "The Weight" use to describe the whiteness of the magazine's offices?
(a) Stately and grand.
(b) Blinding and sterile.
(c) Stark and futuristic.
(d) Serene and sterile.

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?
(a) 99% Caucasian.
(b) 23% African-American, 48% Caucasian, and 29% Native American.
(c) 48% African American and 52% Caucasian.
(d) 99% African-American.

3. The self-help book that the author of "Lonely in America" tries to live by within the essay says that "to become free of disappointment, one must acknowledge the obvious, then" (37) do what?
(a) Embrace it.
(b) Forget about it.
(c) Learn to live with it.
(d) Become familiar with its underpinnings..

4. Who was the author of Memoir and Poems of Phyllis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave?
(a) Margaretta Matilda Odell.
(b) Marie Ellen Magdalena.
(c) Jane Augusten Burroughs.
(d) Mary Margaret Johann.

5. What distinction does a senior editor announce as applying to the author of "The Weight" during the first week of his internship?
(a) Youngest intern.
(b) Least educated intern.
(c) First black intern.
(d) First gay intern.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jesmyn Ward's father is 51% Native American and is registered as a member of what tribe?

2. How many hours does the road trip described in "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones last?

3. What object does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones smell that lets her know they are close to their destination?

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

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

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