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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 the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones, what kind of state does the narrator say she found out North Carolina is?
(a) Flat.
(b) Long.
(c) Dry.
(d) Wide.

2. What company did Jesmyn Ward use in order to obtain a report of her genetic ancestry?
(a) National Geographic Genographic Project.
(b) Ancestry DNA.
(c) Living DNA.
(d) 23andMe.

3. Who was the author of Memoir and Poems of Phyllis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave?
(a) Marie Ellen Magdalena.
(b) Margaretta Matilda Odell.
(c) Mary Margaret Johann.
(d) Jane Augusten Burroughs.

4. What landmark could the author of "The Weight" see outside of the interns' office window?
(a) The Brooklyn Bridge.
(b) The Golden Gate Bridge.
(c) The Manhattan Bridge.
(d) Times Square.

5. What is the name of the editor who curated the works in The Fire This Time?
(a) Jasmine Walker.
(b) Jesmyn Ward.
(c) James Thurber.
(d) Jessica Walsh.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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)?

3. How often do historians say lynchings of African-Americans occurred in the early decades of the twentieth century?

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

5. In the essay "Where Do We Go from Here?", continual progress for African-Americans is claimed to be a what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What connection does Carol Anderson make between the Great Recession and the plight of modern African-Americans?

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

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

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

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