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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 noun does the author of "Message to My Daughters" want to tell her daughters lies before them and that they need not take it or leave it as they found it?
(a) The world.
(b) The city.
(c) The hate.
(d) The criminal justice system.

2. 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?
(a) A child.
(b) A sister.
(c) An employee.
(d) A friend.

3. What is the main pastime depicted within the poem "The Tradition"?
(a) Going for ice cream.
(b) Gardening.
(c) Playing the piano.
(d) Playing baseball.

4. What is the title of Phillis Wheatley's most often-anthologized poem?
(a) "On Being Brought from Africa to America."
(b) "The Spider and the Fly."
(c) "Upon the Burning of Our House."
(d) "To My Dear and Loving Husband."

5. What author does the poem "Queries of Unrest" reference in its dedication?
(a) Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib.
(b) Walt Whitman.
(c) Langston Hughes.
(d) James Baldwin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city does the author of "The Weight" meet his friend in order to visit the house in which James Baldwin died?

2. What does the author of "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution" NOT list among the things that people are turned into by the crime of injustice?

3. What tragic event had occurred the week before Emily Raboteau took her family on a walk over The High Bridge?

4. From the deaths of Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin and Tamir Rice, how many indictments were handed down?

5. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say she feels when she looks at the works collected in The Fire This Time?

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