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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 is the name of the police officer who shot Trayvon Martin?
(a) George Zimmerman.
(b) Roy Oliver.
(c) Timothy Loehmann.
(d) Frank Garmback.

2. Who founded the college in Alabama that the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" attended?
(a) The NAACP.
(b) Former slaves.
(c) Plantation owners.
(d) The Baptist Church of Alabama.

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

4. 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)?
(a) Justified.
(b) Legal.
(c) Illegal.
(d) Unconstitutional.

5. To what area of the United States does the author of "Lonely in America" say that her "cultural memory of slavery" is relegated?
(a) The South.
(b) The North.
(c) The West.
(d) The East.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what social media platform did Jesmyn Ward find solace after Trayvon Martin's death?

2. From what city did Phillis Wheatley's husband hail?

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

4. 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?

5. Besides Phillis Wheatley, at least how many other slaves did her master own during his lifetime?

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