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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 is the occasion bringing everyone together within the poem "Homegoing, A.D. by Kima Jones?
2. To what area of the United States does the author of "Lonely in America" say that her "cultural memory of slavery" is relegated?
3. 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?
4. What two reptiles are the source of the danger during the final scene of Kima Jones's prose poem "Homegoing, A.D."?
5. Who else in Jesmyn Ward's family gets genetic testing done at the same time she does?
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 stories and experiences does Jesmyn Ward provide to the reader in order to demonstrate the depth of her identification with the black identity?
3. How does Honoree Fanonne Jeffers's interpretation of "On Being Brought From Africa to America" differ from those of many scholars?
4. How is Jesmyn Ward's experience of receiving her genetic ancestry results different from the experiences of her parents?
5. In what condition does Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah find James Baldwin's former house in France when she arrives there?
6. 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?
7. 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?
8. What religion is being referenced in the conversation in Kima Jones's poem "Homegoing, A.D." and what details are included that lead to this conclusion?
9. In her essay entitled "White Rage," what distinction does Carol Anderson make between white rage and black rage?
10. To what conclusion does Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah ultimately come to about the desire to "preserve things" (31)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The collection focuses on police brutality as one of the major injustices inflicted upon African-Americans. Write an essay analyzing at least two of the authors' rhetoric and attitudes concerning police brutality and how their treatments of the topic fit into the context of the other themes regarding race contained in the collection.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss how the theme of expectation versus reality is explored within the collection The Fire This Time.
Essay Topic 3
Several essays in the collection The Fire This Time point out differences between being black in America and being black in other parts of the world. Choose three of these essays and use concrete details and examples from each in order to make a claim regarding each author's message about the contrast between black life in America versus black life in other areas of the world.
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