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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 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"?
(a) John Wheatley.
(b) Jacob Wheatley.
(c) John Peters.
(d) James Jackson.

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

3. What is the name of the era in which African-Americans made leaps in advancement just after the end of slavery?
(a) Renaissance.
(b) Restoration.
(c) Reconstruction.
(d) Revitalization.

4. In what social media platform did Jesmyn Ward find solace after Trayvon Martin's death?
(a) Facebook.
(b) Foursquare.
(c) Twitter.
(d) Snapchat.

5. In a letter from Phillis Wheatley to the artist Obour Tanner, Wheatley relates the death of her mistress, saying that her mistress had treated her less like a "servant" (67) and more like a what?
(a) An employee.
(b) A child.
(c) A friend.
(d) A sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What distinction does a senior editor announce as applying to the author of "The Weight" during the first week of his internship?

2. 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?

3. How many hours does the road trip described in "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones last?

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What are the elements of James Baldwin's life and character that Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah describes as being off-putting to her at one point in her life?

3. What stories and experiences does Jesmyn Ward provide to the reader in order to demonstrate the depth of her identification with the black identity?

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

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

6. How is Jesmyn Ward's experience of receiving her genetic ancestry results different from the experiences of her parents?

7. 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?

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

9. What reasons does Jesmyn Ward provide for her claim that it is "impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees" (91)?

10. In what ways does the author of "The Dear Pledges of Our Love: A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" demonstrate how difficult it can be to extricate oneself from the biases present within the American culture's views of black people?

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