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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the occasion bringing everyone together within the poem "Homegoing, A.D. by Kima Jones?
(a) A wedding anniversary.
(b) A wedding.
(c) A funeral.
(d) A birth.

2. 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 Fatwa.
(b) The Fakir.
(c) The Nadir.
(d) The Chasm.

3. A 2016 joint report by the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund states that the Republicans' plan to emphasize identification requirements would adversely affect how many African-American voters?
(a) Three million.
(b) Eight million.
(c) Six million.
(d) Ten million.

4. In what city was an eighteenth century gravesite discovered that contained 13 people of African ancestry?
(a) Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
(b) Hartford, Connecticut.
(c) Worcester, Massachusetts.
(d) Providence, Rhode Island.

5. What other types of work had the editor published before curating The Fire This Time?
(a) Novels and short stories.
(b) Newspaper articles and novels.
(c) Poetry and short stories.
(d) Novels and memoirs.

6. What object does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones smell that lets her know they are close to their destination?
(a) The magnolia tree.
(b) The paper mill.
(c) The popping corn.
(d) The sea air.

7. What is the name of the era in which African-Americans made leaps in advancement just after the end of slavery?
(a) Reconstruction.
(b) Revitalization.
(c) Restoration.
(d) Renaissance.

8. In what New Orleans area cemetery is the author of "Lonely in America's" family buried?
(a) Calvary Cemetery.
(b) Normandy Cemetery.
(c) Greenwood Cemetery.
(d) Holt Cemetery.

9. 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.

10. In what year was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?
(a) 2014.
(b) 2013.
(c) 2012.
(d) 2011.

11. While Jesmyn Ward's father was born in Pass Christian, Mississippi, to what California city had he moved as a teenager in 1969?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Oakland.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Vallejo.

12. How does the author of "Lonely in America" say she would likely have handled being enslaved?
(a) She would have developed a dissociative disorder.
(b) She would have slain her master.
(c) She would not have survived it.
(d) She would have run away.

13. What landmark could the author of "The Weight" see outside of the interns' office window?
(a) The Golden Gate Bridge.
(b) The Manhattan Bridge.
(c) Times Square.
(d) The Brooklyn Bridge.

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

15. In the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones, what kind of state does the narrator say she found out North Carolina is?
(a) Wide.
(b) Long.
(c) Dry.
(d) Flat.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what location did Granddaddy die within Kima Jones's poem "Homegoing, A.D."?

2. How old was Trayvon Martin at the time he was killed?

3. What are the estimates regarding how often an African-American is now killed by police within the United States, circa 2018?

4. How many African-Americans does the author of "Where Do We Go from Here?" say fled from the Jim Crow caste system enacted in the South?

5. In what social media platform did Jesmyn Ward find solace after Trayvon Martin's death?

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