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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. In what state was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?
2. Of what feeling does the author of "Lonely in America" say she had been trying to cure in herself as a "strategy to ward off future misery" (34)?
3. What is the name of the college that the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" attended within a rural Alabama town?
4. What does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" name as her own mother's voice type?
5. What is the name of the police officer who shot Trayvon Martin?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Jesmyn Ward's experience of receiving her genetic ancestry results different from the experiences of her parents?
2. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say that she feels upon looking at all of the works within The Fire This Time and why?
3. How does the author of "Where Do We Go from Here" evoke feelings of hope in the reader at the end of her essay?
4. To what conclusion does Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah ultimately come to about the desire to "preserve things" (31)?
5. How does Honoree Fanonne Jeffers's interpretation of "On Being Brought From Africa to America" differ from those of many scholars?
6. What does Jesmyn Ward list among the issues with which black people in America are exhausted?
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. 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?
9. 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?
10. At the time of Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah's visit to Nice, how had her relationship with money recently changed?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Perform a biographical criticism of one of the essays or poems after conducting research about the author's life and works.
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Many different areas of the United States are discussed within the works included in The Fire This Time. Discuss the sense of place contained in three particular essays and how the discussion of the sense of place helps each author further his or her message regarding race in America.
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