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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. Who else in Jesmyn Ward's family gets genetic testing done at the same time she does?
2. In what year did Phillis Wheatley sail to London for a six week period in order to promote her poetry?
3. What major event happened upon Phillis Wheatley's return to America from London?
4. Who founded the college in Alabama that the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" attended?
5. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say is directed toward her by the majority of Americans and has become her dark twin?
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 connection does Carol Anderson make between the Great Recession and the plight of modern African-Americans?
3. What does Jesmyn Ward list among the issues with which black people in America are exhausted?
4. 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?
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 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?
7. 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?
8. How is Jesmyn Ward's experience of receiving her genetic ancestry results different from the experiences of her parents?
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 what condition does Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah find James Baldwin's former house in France when she arrives there?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Determine the main message put forth within Natasha Trethewey's poem "Theories of Time and Space" and use examples and concrete details from the poem to prove your claim.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Discuss the use of Aristotle's appeals within a particular essay and how the author employs the three appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos in order to put forth a solid argument.
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