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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 old was Trayvon Martin at the time he was killed?
(a) 21.
(b) 15.
(c) 19.
(d) 17.

2. In what state did the author's mother in "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" grow up, ensconced in poverty?
(a) Georgia.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Alabama.

3. Who founded the college in Alabama that the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" attended?
(a) The Baptist Church of Alabama.
(b) Plantation owners.
(c) The NAACP.
(d) Former slaves.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The author of "White Rage" states that the case of Connick vs. Thompson ruled that it was what "for a city prosecutor's staff to hide evidence that exonerated a black man who was rotting on death row for 14 years" (87)?

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

3. What term did the historians referred to in "Where Do We Go from Here?" use to describe the last reversal of African-American advancement?

4. Besides Phillis Wheatley, at least how many other slaves did her master own during his lifetime?

5. How many books of Phillis Wheatley's poetry were published during her lifetime?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Jesmyn Ward list among the issues with which black people in America are exhausted?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What are the examples the author of "Where Do We Go from Here" uses in order to prove that African-Americans are currently living through a second Nadir?

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