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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. What is the name of the U.S. Senator who is famous for opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1957 "so strenuously that he conducted the longest lone filibuster ever" for over 24 straight hours?
(a) Trent Lott.
(b) Benjamin Cardin.
(c) Strom Thurmond.
(d) Thomas Carper.

2. What is the main pastime depicted within the poem "The Tradition"?
(a) Playing the piano.
(b) Playing baseball.
(c) Going for ice cream.
(d) Gardening.

3. What is the occasion bringing everyone together within the poem "Homegoing, A.D. by Kima Jones?
(a) A funeral.
(b) A birth.
(c) A wedding anniversary.
(d) A wedding.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many books of Phillis Wheatley's poetry were published during her lifetime?

2. In what year did Phillis Wheatley sail to London for a six week period in order to promote her poetry?

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

4. How old was Trayvon Martin at the time he was killed?

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

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 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?

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

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

6. 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?

7. In what condition does Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah find James Baldwin's former house in France when she arrives there?

8. How does the author of "Where Do We Go from Here" evoke feelings of hope in the reader at the end of her essay?

9. 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?

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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