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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Phillis Wheatley sail to London for a six week period in order to promote her poetry?
(a) 1768.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1773.
(d) 1832.

2. What is the name of the college that the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" attended within a rural Alabama town?
(a) Talladega College.
(b) Carlsbad College.
(c) Affinity College.
(d) Trinity College.

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

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

5. Which family member's house in New Orleans had been destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and was subsequently visited by the author of "Lonely in America"?
(a) Uncle Chester.
(b) Great-aunt Louise.
(c) Grandmama.
(d) Aunt Lou.

6. Who else in Jesmyn Ward's family gets genetic testing done at the same time she does?
(a) Her mother and her sister.
(b) Her father and her uncle.
(c) Her mother and her father.
(d) Her father and her brother.

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

8. 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 friend.
(b) An employee.
(c) A sister.
(d) A child.

9. In what social media platform did Jesmyn Ward find solace after Trayvon Martin's death?
(a) Foursquare.
(b) Twitter.
(c) Snapchat.
(d) Facebook.

10. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say is directed toward her by the majority of Americans and has become her dark twin?
(a) Pity.
(b) Contempt.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Disdain.

11. 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?
(a) 99% African-American.
(b) 23% African-American, 48% Caucasian, and 29% Native American.
(c) 99% Caucasian.
(d) 48% African American and 52% Caucasian.

12. Once the author of "The Weight" stopped reading James Baldwin's works in order to separate his own work from that of James Baldwin's, what is NOT one author he mentions reading voraciously?
(a) Ralph Ellison.
(b) Sergei Dovlatov.
(c) Henry Dumas.
(d) Bell hooks.

13. 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.

14. At what age did the poet Phillis Wheatley die?
(a) 42.
(b) 28.
(c) 34.
(d) 38.

15. How many books of Phillis Wheatley's poetry were published during her lifetime?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) None.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the author of Memoir and Poems of Phyllis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave?

2. While Jesmyn Ward's father was born in Pass Christian, Mississippi, to what California city had he moved as a teenager in 1969?

3. What object does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones smell that lets her know they are close to their destination?

4. What company did Jesmyn Ward use in order to obtain a report of her genetic ancestry?

5. Whose original literary work inspired the title of The Fire This Time?

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