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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. Of what feeling does the author of "Lonely in America" say she had been trying to cure in herself as a "strategy to ward off future misery" (34)?
(a) Optimism.
(b) Joy.
(c) Depression.
(d) Hope.

2. In what city does the author of "The Weight" meet his friend in order to visit the house in which James Baldwin died?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Lisbon.
(c) Nice.
(d) Paris.

3. 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) 3/4.
(b) 2/3.
(c) 1/4.
(d) 1/2.

4. At what age did the poet Phillis Wheatley die?
(a) 38.
(b) 42.
(c) 34.
(d) 28.

5. 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) Unconstitutional.
(b) Legal.
(c) Illegal.
(d) Justified.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what area of the United States does the author of "Lonely in America" say that her "cultural memory of slavery" is relegated?

2. What topic is NOT listed among the issues that the author of "Lonely in America" feels unable to fixate upon in order to dispel her sense of loneliness?

3. What is the title of Phillis Wheatley's most often-anthologized poem?

4. How many years apart does the author of "The Weight" say his grandfather's age and James Baldwin's age had been?

5. How many books of Phillis Wheatley's poetry were published during her lifetime?

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