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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 South.
(d) The West.

4. For what ultimate purpose does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" start her search for primary sources regarding Phillis Wheatley's life?
(a) To publish a rebuttal to
(b) To write a collection of essays about freed slaves.
(c) To discover more about her own identity.
(d) To write a series of poems about Phillis Wheatley.

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

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

3. What major event happened upon Phillis Wheatley's return to America from London?

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

5. What is the title of Phillis Wheatley's most often-anthologized poem?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author of "Where Do We Go from Here" evoke feelings of hope in the reader at the end of her essay?

2. How does Honoree Fanonne Jeffers's interpretation of "On Being Brought From Africa to America" differ from those of many scholars?

3. To what conclusion does Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah ultimately come to about the desire to "preserve things" (31)?

4. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say that she feels upon looking at all of the works within The Fire This Time and why?

5. For what purpose had Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, the author of "The Weight," come to London just before her acquaintance convinces her to visit James Baldwin's former house in France?

6. What is Wendy S. Walters's central goal within the narrative of her memoir "Lonely in America" and from what source does she draw the idea for this goal?

7. In what condition does Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah find James Baldwin's former house in France when she arrives there?

8. In her essay entitled "White Rage," what distinction does Carol Anderson make between white rage and black rage?

9. What religion is being referenced in the conversation in Kima Jones's poem "Homegoing, A.D." and what details are included that lead to this conclusion?

10. What is the main claim being made regarding a Nadir within the essay "Where Do We Go from Here"?

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