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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 "White Rage" states that while before the Great Recession, white Americans had four times more wealth than black Americans, by 2010 the gap had increased to how many times?
(a) Six times.
(b) Ten times.
(c) Five times.
(d) Eight times.

2. In what social media platform did Jesmyn Ward find solace after Trayvon Martin's death?
(a) Snapchat.
(b) Twitter.
(c) Foursquare.
(d) Facebook.

3. In what year was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2013.
(c) 2014.
(d) 2011.

4. A 2013 report by researchers at Brandeis University calculated that what fraction "of the collective wealth of African-American families was stripped away" (86) during the Great Recession?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 2/3.
(c) 3/4.
(d) 1/2.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the occasion bringing everyone together within the poem "Homegoing, A.D. by Kima Jones?

2. What are the estimates regarding how often an African-American is now killed by police within the United States, circa 2018?

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

4. Who was the author of Memoir and Poems of Phyllis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave?

5. 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?

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