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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 years apart does the author of "The Weight" say his grandfather's age and James Baldwin's age had been?
2. Who was the author of Memoir and Poems of Phyllis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave?
3. How many hours does the road trip described in "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones last?
4. What other types of work had the editor published before curating The Fire This Time?
5. What was the first name of Phillis Wheatley's mistress?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. In what ways does the author of "The Dear Pledges of Our Love: A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" demonstrate how difficult it can be to extricate oneself from the biases present within the American culture's views of black people?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. What unsettling comment does a senior editor make to Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah during the first week of her magazine internship?
6. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say that she feels upon looking at all of the works within The Fire This Time and why?
7. 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?
8. 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?
9. In her essay entitled "White Rage," what distinction does Carol Anderson make between white rage and black rage?
10. How does Honoree Fanonne Jeffers's interpretation of "On Being Brought From Africa to America" differ from those of many scholars?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Investigate the overarching ways in which James Baldwin's life and works resonate throughout the collection The Fire This Time.
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