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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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) 1/2.
(b) 1/4.
(c) 3/4.
(d) 2/3.

4. 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 East.
(b) The North.
(c) The West.
(d) The South.

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

6. How old was Trayvon Martin at the time he was killed?
(a) 21.
(b) 17.
(c) 15.
(d) 19.

7. 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) Become familiar with its underpinnings..
(b) Learn to live with it.
(c) Forget about it.
(d) Embrace it.

8. 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) Six times.
(b) Eight times.
(c) Ten times.
(d) Five times.

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

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

11. In what city was an eighteenth century gravesite discovered that contained 13 people of African ancestry?
(a) Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
(b) Worcester, Massachusetts.
(c) Hartford, Connecticut.
(d) Providence, Rhode Island.

12. What adjective does the writer of "The Weight" use to describe the black narrative within the United States?
(a) Linear.
(b) Quixotic.
(c) Problematic.
(d) Fractured.

13. What company did Jesmyn Ward use in order to obtain a report of her genetic ancestry?
(a) National Geographic Genographic Project.
(b) Living DNA.
(c) Ancestry DNA.
(d) 23andMe.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the name of the editor who curated the works in The Fire This Time?

3. 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?

4. In the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones, what kind of state does the narrator say she found out North Carolina is?

5. 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"?

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