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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Reckoning: "Queries of Unrest"; "Blacker Than Thou"; "Da Art of Storytellin' (a Prequel)".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) To discover more about her own identity.
(b) To publish a rebuttal to
(c) To write a collection of essays about freed slaves.
(d) To write a series of poems about Phillis Wheatley.

2. 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 East.
(c) The South.
(d) The North.

3. The final line of the poem "Queries of Unrest" references "trying to save them the time of" doing what "to darkness when all they have to do is close their eyes" (100)?
(a) Planting.
(b) Witnessing.
(c) Burying.
(d) Ignoring.

4. What distinction does a senior editor announce as applying to the author of "The Weight" during the first week of his internship?
(a) Youngest intern.
(b) First black intern.
(c) First gay intern.
(d) Least educated intern.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what university did Kevin Young teach for five years?

2. What is the name of the era in which African-Americans made leaps in advancement just after the end of slavery?

3. When Kiese Laymon was busy analyzing the Outkast song "Wailin'," what was he supposed to be doing instead?

4. When Kevin Young writes that being black is not a paid position, to what type of position does he liken it instead?

5. 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?

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