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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. 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 Nadir.
(b) The Fatwa.
(c) The Chasm.
(d) The Fakir.

2. What was the first name of Phillis Wheatley's mistress?
(a) Savannah.
(b) Melanie.
(c) Clementine.
(d) Susannah.

3. What does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" state was the demographic makeup of her school in the 1970s?
(a) 23% African-American, 48% Caucasian, and 29% Native American.
(b) 48% African American and 52% Caucasian.
(c) 99% African-American.
(d) 99% Caucasian.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What topic is NOT listed among the issues that the author of "Lonely in America" feels unable to fixate upon in order to dispel her sense of loneliness?

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

3. At what age did the poet Phillis Wheatley die?

4. 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)?

5. Jesmyn Ward's father is 51% Native American and is registered as a member of what tribe?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. How does Carol Anderson refute the idea that the Brown vs. Board of Education decision was a complete triumph for black advancement in America?

5. What proof, if any, did Honoree Fanonne Jeffers discover through her research that Phillis Wheatley's 1834 biographer had been related to Susannah Wheatley, Phillis Wheatley's mistress?

6. 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?

7. How did a quote within James Baldwin's book The Fire Next Time inspire Jesmyn ward to put together her own collection to create The Fire This Time?

8. At the time of Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah's visit to Nice, how had her relationship with money recently changed?

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

10. What are the three things Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah says are the only things she knows about being black in America?

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