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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. 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) Plantation owners.
(b) The NAACP.
(c) Former slaves.
(d) The Baptist Church of Alabama.

2. What adjective does the writer of "The Weight" use to describe the black narrative within the United States?
(a) Quixotic.
(b) Linear.
(c) Problematic.
(d) Fractured.

3. In what social media platform did Jesmyn Ward find solace after Trayvon Martin's death?
(a) Foursquare.
(b) Twitter.
(c) Snapchat.
(d) Facebook.

4. 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?
(a) Talladega College.
(b) Trinity College.
(c) Affinity College.
(d) Carlsbad College.

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) Jump up and down.
(d) Wave.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a letter from Phillis Wheatley to the artist Obour Tanner, Wheatley relates the death of her mistress, saying that her mistress had treated her less like a "servant" (67) and more like a what?

2. What two reptiles are the source of the danger during the final scene of Kima Jones's prose poem "Homegoing, A.D."?

3. What major event happened upon Phillis Wheatley's return to America from London?

4. 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?

5. What was the first name of Phillis Wheatley's mistress?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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