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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Jubilee: "Theories of Time and Space"; "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution"; "Message to My Daughters".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the names of the two daughters of the author of "Message to My Daughters"?
(a) Mira and Leila.
(b) Jane and Sarah.
(c) Merritt and Maleena.
(d) Layla and Maya.

2. How many years apart does the author of "The Weight" say his grandfather's age and James Baldwin's age had been?
(a) 12.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 3.

3. In what decade did the the use of blackface begin?
(a) 1790s.
(b) 1830s.
(c) 1860s.
(d) 1820s.

4. What two reptiles are the source of the danger during the final scene of Kima Jones's prose poem "Homegoing, A.D."?
(a) Brown rattlesnakes and chameleons.
(b) Poison Dart frogs and salamanders.
(c) Copperhead snakes and alligators.
(d) Crocodiles and Gila monsters.

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)?
(a) Joy.
(b) Depression.
(c) Hope.
(d) Optimism.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a letter from Phillis Wheatley to the artist Obour Tanner, Wheatley relates the death of her mistress, saying that her mistress had treated her less like a "servant" (67) and more like a what?

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. What musician does Kevin Young name as the most prominent example of a white person living as a black person?

4. What is the main pastime depicted within the poem "The Tradition"?

5. What does the author of "Message to My Daughters" say had appeared to be the primary task of the staff at the Brooklyn junior high school she attended as a child?

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