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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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 sea air.
(d) The popping corn.

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) Strom Thurmond.
(b) Trent Lott.
(c) Thomas Carper.
(d) Benjamin Cardin.

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

5. 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) Poison Dart frogs and salamanders.
(c) Crocodiles and Gila monsters.
(d) Brown rattlesnakes and chameleons.

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

7. In what city does the author of "The Weight" meet his friend in order to visit the house in which James Baldwin died?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Lisbon.
(c) Paris.
(d) Nice.

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

9. At the end of her essay "Cracking the Code," Jesmyn Ward states that she imagines that a longing for what element had been a part of all of her ancestors' lives?
(a) The longing to be understood.
(b) The longing to be heard.
(c) The longing to belong.
(d) The longing for independence.

10. 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) Bell hooks.
(b) Henry Dumas.
(c) Sergei Dovlatov.
(d) Ralph Ellison.

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

12. 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) Carlsbad College.
(b) Trinity College.
(c) Talladega College.
(d) Affinity College.

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

14. Jesmyn Ward's father is 51% Native American and is registered as a member of what tribe?
(a) Sioux.
(b) Blackfoot.
(c) Choctaw.
(d) Seneca.

15. 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) Alto.
(c) Soprano.
(d) Bass.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What term did the historians referred to in "Where Do We Go from Here?" use to describe the last reversal of African-American advancement?

4. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say she feels when she looks at the works collected in The Fire This Time?

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

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