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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. 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?
2. What other types of work had the editor published before curating The Fire This Time?
3. In what year did Phillis Wheatley sail to London for a six week period in order to promote her poetry?
4. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say she feels when she looks at the works collected in The Fire This Time?
5. The author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" states that most of the information about Phillis Wheatley comes from a book published how many years after the poet's death?
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 does Jesmyn Ward list among the issues with which black people in America are exhausted?
3. What is the main claim being made regarding a Nadir within the essay "Where Do We Go from Here"?
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. How does Carol Anderson refute the idea that the Brown vs. Board of Education decision was a complete triumph for black advancement in America?
6. In what condition does Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah find James Baldwin's former house in France when she arrives there?
7. At the time of Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah's visit to Nice, how had her relationship with money recently changed?
8. What connection does Carol Anderson make between the Great Recession and the plight of modern African-Americans?
9. 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?
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
Discuss how the theme of expectation versus reality is explored within the collection The Fire This Time.
Essay Topic 2
Choose two of the poems contained in The Fire This Time and write an essay comparing and contrasting their respective messages and literary techniques.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Daniel Jose Older's purpose in choosing the form of a letter to write his piece "This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution." How does the form chosen serve to further his included messages and themes?
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