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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the U.S. Senator who is famous for opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1957 "so strenuously that he conducted the longest lone filibuster ever" for over 24 straight hours?
(a) Benjamin Cardin.
(b) Trent Lott.
(c) Thomas Carper.
(d) Strom Thurmond.

4. 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) Aunt Lou.
(d) Grandmama.

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

6. 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) Depression.
(b) Optimism.
(c) Hope.
(d) Joy.

7. 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)?
(a) Unconstitutional.
(b) Legal.
(c) Illegal.
(d) Justified.

8. What two reptiles are the source of the danger during the final scene of Kima Jones's prose poem "Homegoing, A.D."?
(a) Copperhead snakes and alligators.
(b) Brown rattlesnakes and chameleons.
(c) Crocodiles and Gila monsters.
(d) Poison Dart frogs and salamanders.

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

10. 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) Soprano.
(b) Alto.
(c) Tenor.
(d) Bass.

11. 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 Baptist Church of Alabama.
(b) The NAACP.
(c) Plantation owners.
(d) Former slaves.

12. 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) A friend.
(d) An employee.

13. What action does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, A.D." say that she and those with her perform "cuz gator made for water, but children born for land" (18)?
(a) Wave.
(b) Lie down.
(c) Run fast.
(d) Jump up and down.

14. 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) Six million.
(b) Two million.
(c) 8 million.
(d) 1 million.

15. 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 Nadir.
(c) The Chasm.
(d) The Fakir.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the era in which African-Americans made leaps in advancement just after the end of slavery?

2. 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?

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?

4. The author of "Where Do We Go from Here?" states that "we must know deep in our bones and in our hearts that if the ancestors survived" what, "we can survive anything" (62)?

5. What landmark could the author of "The Weight" see outside of the interns' office window?

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