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 adjective does the writer of "The Weight" use to describe the black narrative within the United States?
(a) Quixotic.
(b) Problematic.
(c) Linear.
(d) Fractured.

2. 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) Tenor.
(b) Soprano.
(c) Alto.
(d) Bass.

3. The biography of Phillis Wheatley published in 1834 called Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, was written by a woman who claimed to be a what of Phillis Wheatley's former mistress?
(a) "A collateral descendant" (65).
(b) "A distant relative" (65).
(c) "An incidental family member" (65).
(d) "A kissing cousin" (65).

4. Jesmyn Ward's father is 51% Native American and is registered as a member of what tribe?
(a) Blackfoot.
(b) Seneca.
(c) Choctaw.
(d) Sioux.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones, what kind of state does the narrator say she found out North Carolina is?

3. What landmark could the author of "The Weight" see outside of the interns' office window?

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

5. What is the name of the police officer who shot Trayvon Martin?

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