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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. How many African-Americans does the author of "Where Do We Go from Here?" say fled from the Jim Crow caste system enacted in the South?
2. Whose original literary work inspired the title of The Fire This Time?
3. The self-help book that the author of "Lonely in America" tries to live by within the essay says that "to become free of disappointment, one must acknowledge the obvious, then" (37) do what?
4. What is the name of the police officer who shot Trayvon Martin?
5. Jesmyn Ward's father is 51% Native American and is registered as a member of what tribe?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Honoree Fanonne Jeffers's interpretation of "On Being Brought From Africa to America" differ from those of many scholars?
2. What reasons does Jesmyn Ward provide for her claim that it is "impossible for most black Americans to construct full family trees" (91)?
3. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say that she feels upon looking at all of the works within The Fire This Time and why?
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 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?
6. What connection does Carol Anderson make between the Great Recession and the plight of modern African-Americans?
7. 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?
8. In her essay entitled "White Rage," what distinction does Carol Anderson make between white rage and black rage?
9. 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?
10. What stories and experiences does Jesmyn Ward provide to the reader in order to demonstrate the depth of her identification with the black identity?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explore the motifs of fire, water, and earth present within the works collected in The Fire This Time.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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.
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