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

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

2. Besides Phillis Wheatley, at least how many other slaves did her master own during his lifetime?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 12.
(d) 6.

3. A 2013 report by researchers at Brandeis University calculated that what fraction "of the collective wealth of African-American families was stripped away" (86) during the Great Recession?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 3/4.
(c) 1/2.
(d) 2/3.

4. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say she feels when she looks at the works collected in The Fire This Time?
(a) Courage.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Hope.
(d) Dismay.

5. In what state did the author's mother in "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" grow up, ensconced in poverty?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Kentucky.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Alabama.

6. What was the name of Phillis Wheatley's husband, who is being defended in the essay "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband"?
(a) John Peters.
(b) Jacob Wheatley.
(c) James Jackson.
(d) John Wheatley.

7. 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) Hope.
(c) Optimism.
(d) Depression.

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

9. Who founded the college in Alabama that the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" attended?
(a) The NAACP.
(b) Plantation owners.
(c) The Baptist Church of Alabama.
(d) Former slaves.

10. 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?
(a) 1 million.
(b) Two million.
(c) Six million.
(d) 8 million.

11. What finding in the results of Jesmyn Ward's genetic testing results shocked her?
(a) Her ancestry is 42% Native American.
(b) Her ancestry is 68% European.
(c) Her ancestry is only 33% African.
(d) Her ancestry is over 70% African.

12. 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 carpentry internship.
(d) A reporting internship.

13. The author of "White Rage" states that while before the Great Recession, white Americans had four times more wealth than black Americans, by 2010 the gap had increased to how many times?
(a) Eight times.
(b) Six times.
(c) Five times.
(d) Ten times.

14. 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 North.
(d) The South.

15. 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 sea air.
(c) The popping corn.
(d) The paper mill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other types of work had the editor published before curating The Fire This Time?

2. 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?

3. From what city did Phillis Wheatley's husband hail?

4. What is the title of Phillis Wheatley's most often-anthologized poem?

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

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