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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What finding in the results of Jesmyn Ward's genetic testing results shocked her?
2. What is the occasion bringing everyone together within the poem "Homegoing, A.D. by Kima Jones?
3. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say is directed toward her by the majority of Americans and has become her dark twin?
4. 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?
5. What does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" state was the demographic makeup of her school in the 1970s?
Short Essay Questions
1. What stories and experiences does Jesmyn Ward provide to the reader in order to demonstrate the depth of her identification with the black identity?
2. What unsettling comment does a senior editor make to Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah during the first week of her magazine internship?
3. How is Jesmyn Ward's experience of receiving her genetic ancestry results different from the experiences of her parents?
4. What reasons does Jesmyn Ward provide for her claim that it is "impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees" (91)?
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. What does Jesmyn Ward list among the issues with which black people in America are exhausted?
7. At the time of Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah's visit to Nice, how had her relationship with money recently changed?
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. In what condition does Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah find James Baldwin's former house in France when she arrives there?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Several of the works within The Fire This Time focus on family relationships. Choose three of these works and discuss how they work together to send a larger message about race and family across the collection.
Essay Topic 2
Determine the most prominent message inherent in Emily Raboteau's essay, "Know Your Rights!" and prove your claim about her message using concrete details from the essay.
Essay Topic 3
Choose two of the poems contained in The Fire This Time and write an essay comparing and contrasting their respective messages and literary techniques.
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