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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. In what city was an eighteenth century gravesite discovered that contained 13 people of African ancestry?
(a) Worcester, Massachusetts.
(b) Providence, Rhode Island.
(c) Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
(d) Hartford, Connecticut.

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

3. Jesmyn Ward's father is 51% Native American and is registered as a member of what tribe?
(a) Choctaw.
(b) Sioux.
(c) Seneca.
(d) Blackfoot.

4. What major event happened upon Phillis Wheatley's return to America from London?
(a) She found that her husband had died in her absence.
(b) She was freed.
(c) She ran away from her master's home.
(d) She gave birth to her third child.

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?
(a) 15.
(b) 75.
(c) 25.
(d) 50.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author of "Lonely in America" say she would likely have handled being enslaved?

2. A 2016 joint report by the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund states that the Republicans' plan to emphasize identification requirements would adversely affect how many African-American voters?

3. While Jesmyn Ward's father was born in Pass Christian, Mississippi, to what California city had he moved as a teenager in 1969?

4. In what New Orleans area cemetery is the author of "Lonely in America's" family buried?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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