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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 many African-Americans does the author of "Where Do We Go from Here?" say fled from the Jim Crow caste system enacted in the South?
(a) 8 million.
(b) 1 million.
(c) Six million.
(d) Two million.

2. How many books of Phillis Wheatley's poetry were published during her lifetime?
(a) 1.
(b) None.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

3. What does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" name as her own mother's voice type?
(a) Alto.
(b) Bass.
(c) Soprano.
(d) Tenor.

4. How often do historians say lynchings of African-Americans occurred in the early decades of the twentieth century?
(a) Every month.
(b) Every four days.
(c) Every week.
(d) Every day.

5. What action does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, A.D." say that she and those with her perform "cuz gator made for water, but children born for land" (18)?
(a) Lie down.
(b) Run fast.
(c) Wave.
(d) Jump up and down.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What company did Jesmyn Ward use in order to obtain a report of her genetic ancestry?

3. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say is directed toward her by the majority of Americans and has become her dark twin?

4. What is the occasion bringing everyone together within the poem "Homegoing, A.D. by Kima Jones?

5. In what state was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?

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

3. For what purpose had Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, the author of "The Weight," come to London just before her acquaintance convinces her to visit James Baldwin's former house in France?

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

5. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say that she feels upon looking at all of the works within The Fire This Time and why?

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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