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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 years apart does the author of "The Weight" say his grandfather's age and James Baldwin's age had been?
(a) 7.
(b) 12.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

2. In what state was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?
(a) Florida.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Tennessee.

3. The biography of Phillis Wheatley published in 1834 called Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave, was written by a woman who claimed to be a what of Phillis Wheatley's former mistress?
(a) "A distant relative" (65).
(b) "An incidental family member" (65).
(c) "A collateral descendant" (65).
(d) "A kissing cousin" (65).

4. 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) Kentucky.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Mississippi.

5. What object does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones smell that lets her know they are close to their destination?
(a) The paper mill.
(b) The magnolia tree.
(c) The popping corn.
(d) The sea air.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author of "Where Do We Go from Here?" states that "we must know deep in our bones and in our hearts that if the ancestors survived" what, "we can survive anything" (62)?

2. In what city was an eighteenth century gravesite discovered that contained 13 people of African ancestry?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. Jesmyn Ward's father is 51% Native American and is registered as a member of what tribe?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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