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

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

3. What action does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, A.D." say that she and those with her perform "cuz gator made for water, but children born for land" (18)?
(a) Run fast.
(b) Wave.
(c) Lie down.
(d) Jump up and down.

4. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say is directed toward her by the majority of Americans and has become her dark twin?
(a) Disdain.
(b) Pity.
(c) Contempt.
(d) Hatred.

5. What major event happened upon Phillis Wheatley's return to America from London?
(a) She gave birth to her third child.
(b) She ran away from her master's home.
(c) She was freed.
(d) She found that her husband had died in her absence.

Short Answer 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)?

2. In what New Orleans area cemetery is the author of "Lonely in America's" family buried?

3. 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?

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

5. What two reptiles are the source of the danger during the final scene of Kima Jones's prose poem "Homegoing, A.D."?

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