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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" name as her own mother's voice type?
(a) Tenor.
(b) Bass.
(c) Alto.
(d) Soprano.

3. The self-help book that the author of "Lonely in America" tries to live by within the essay says that "to become free of disappointment, one must acknowledge the obvious, then" (37) do what?
(a) Learn to live with it.
(b) Become familiar with its underpinnings..
(c) Forget about it.
(d) Embrace it.

4. 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) Renaissance.
(d) Restoration.

5. 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) A child.
(c) A sister.
(d) An employee.

6. 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 carpentry internship.
(c) A professorial internship.
(d) A reporting internship.

7. What major event happened upon Phillis Wheatley's return to America from London?
(a) She ran away from her master's home.
(b) She gave birth to her third child.
(c) She was freed.
(d) She found that her husband had died in her absence.

8. In what location did Granddaddy die within Kima Jones's poem "Homegoing, A.D."?
(a) On the porch.
(b) In the backyard.
(c) In the bathtub.
(d) In his bed.

9. What is the name of the police officer who shot Trayvon Martin?
(a) Roy Oliver.
(b) Frank Garmback.
(c) George Zimmerman.
(d) Timothy Loehmann.

10. Who was the author of Memoir and Poems of Phyllis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave?
(a) Margaretta Matilda Odell.
(b) Jane Augusten Burroughs.
(c) Mary Margaret Johann.
(d) Marie Ellen Magdalena.

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 only 33% African.
(c) Her ancestry is 68% European.
(d) Her ancestry is over 70% African.

12. 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) Dismay.
(d) Hope.

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

14. 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) Six million.
(b) Three million.
(c) Eight million.
(d) Ten million.

15. What topic is NOT listed among the issues that the author of "Lonely in America" feels unable to fixate upon in order to dispel her sense of loneliness?
(a) The failures of the federal government.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Racism.
(d) Friendship.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

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

3. How does the author of "Lonely in America" say she would likely have handled being enslaved?

4. The author of "White Rage" states that the case of Connick vs. Thompson ruled that it was what "for a city prosecutor's staff to hide evidence that exonerated a black man who was rotting on death row for 14 years" (87)?

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

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