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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 occasion bringing everyone together within the poem "Homegoing, A.D. by Kima Jones?
(a) A funeral.
(b) A birth.
(c) A wedding.
(d) A wedding anniversary.

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

3. 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?
(a) Bass.
(b) Tenor.
(c) Soprano.
(d) Alto.

4. 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 West.
(b) The North.
(c) The East.
(d) The South.

5. How does the author of "Lonely in America" say she would likely have handled being enslaved?
(a) She would not have survived it.
(b) She would have developed a dissociative disorder.
(c) She would have slain her master.
(d) She would have run away.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what location did Granddaddy die within Kima Jones's poem "Homegoing, A.D."?

3. 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)?

4. What company did Jesmyn Ward use in order to obtain a report of her genetic ancestry?

5. 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)?

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