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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) Newspaper articles and novels.
(b) Novels and memoirs.
(c) Novels and short stories.
(d) Poetry and short stories.

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

3. 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 reporting internship.
(b) A publishing internship.
(c) A carpentry internship.
(d) A professorial internship.

4. 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 for independence.
(b) The longing to belong.
(c) The longing to be understood.
(d) The longing to be heard.

5. The biography of Phillis Wheatley published in 1834 called Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, was written by a woman who claimed to be a what of Phillis Wheatley's former mistress?
(a) "A collateral descendant" (65).
(b) "A kissing cousin" (65).
(c) "An incidental family member" (65).
(d) "A distant relative" (65).

6. The author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" states that most of the information about Phillis Wheatley comes from a book published how many years after the poet's death?
(a) 25.
(b) 50.
(c) 75.
(d) 15.

7. In what year was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?
(a) 2012.
(b) 2014.
(c) 2013.
(d) 2011.

8. 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 brother.
(c) Her father and her uncle.
(d) Her mother and her father.

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

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

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

12. What distinction does a senior editor announce as applying to the author of "The Weight" during the first week of his internship?
(a) First gay intern.
(b) First black intern.
(c) Youngest intern.
(d) Least educated intern.

13. 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) Henry Dumas.
(c) Sergei Dovlatov.
(d) Bell hooks.

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

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

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. What finding in the results of Jesmyn Ward's genetic testing results shocked her?

3. In what social media platform did Jesmyn Ward find solace after Trayvon Martin's death?

4. What are the estimates regarding how often an African-American is now killed by police within the United States, circa 2018?

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

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