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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 kind of trees does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones see that let her know they are close to their destination?
(a) Apple trees.
(b) Palm trees.
(c) Palmetto trees.
(d) Magnolia trees.

2. 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)?
(a) The Middle Passage.
(b) The indignities of slavery.
(c) Systemic racism.
(d) Jim Crow laws.

3. What term did the historians referred to in "Where Do We Go from Here?" use to describe the last reversal of African-American advancement?
(a) The Chasm.
(b) The Fakir.
(c) The Nadir.
(d) The Fatwa.

4. Who else in Jesmyn Ward's family gets genetic testing done at the same time she does?
(a) Her mother and her sister.
(b) Her father and her brother.
(c) Her mother and her father.
(d) Her father and her uncle.

5. Which family member's house in New Orleans had been destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and was subsequently visited by the author of "Lonely in America"?
(a) Aunt Lou.
(b) Great-aunt Louise.
(c) Grandmama.
(d) Uncle Chester.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" state was the demographic makeup of her school in the 1970s?

3. Who founded the college in Alabama that the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" attended?

4. For what ultimate purpose does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" start her search for primary sources regarding Phillis Wheatley's life?

5. How often do historians say lynchings of African-Americans occurred in the early decades of the twentieth century?

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