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

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

3. Who else in Jesmyn Ward's family gets genetic testing done at the same time she does?
(a) Her father and her uncle.
(b) Her mother and her sister.
(c) Her father and her brother.
(d) Her mother and her father.

4. In the essay "Where Do We Go from Here?", continual progress for African-Americans is claimed to be a what?
(a) A moral certainty.
(b) A birthright.
(c) A reason for hope.
(d) A myth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In what year did Phillis Wheatley sail to London for a six week period in order to promote her poetry?

3. What object does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones smell that lets her know they are close to their destination?

4. What two adjectives does the author of the "The Weight" use to describe the whiteness of the magazine's offices?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What unsettling comment does a senior editor make to Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah during the first week of her magazine internship?

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

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. 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?

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