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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I, Legacy: "Where Do We Go from Here?"; "The Dear Pledges of Our Love: A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband"; "White Rage"; "Cracking the Code".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) 48% African American and 52% Caucasian.
(b) 99% African-American.
(c) 99% Caucasian.
(d) 23% African-American, 48% Caucasian, and 29% Native American.

2. What two adjectives does the author of the "The Weight" use to describe the whiteness of the magazine's offices?
(a) Serene and sterile.
(b) Blinding and sterile.
(c) Stark and futuristic.
(d) Stately and grand.

3. Jesmyn Ward's father is 51% Native American and is registered as a member of what tribe?
(a) Blackfoot.
(b) Sioux.
(c) Seneca.
(d) Choctaw.

4. In what year did Phillis Wheatley sail to London for a six week period in order to promote her poetry?
(a) 1773.
(b) 1768.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1832.

5. Who else in Jesmyn Ward's family gets genetic testing done at the same time she does?
(a) Her mother and her sister.
(b) Her father and her uncle.
(c) Her father and her brother.
(d) Her mother and her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, A.D." say that she and those with her perform "cuz gator made for water, but children born for land" (18)?

2. In the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones, what kind of state does the narrator say she found out North Carolina is?

3. In what city was an eighteenth century gravesite discovered that contained 13 people of African ancestry?

4. How many years apart does the author of "The Weight" say his grandfather's age and James Baldwin's age had been?

5. For what ultimate purpose does the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" start her search for primary sources regarding Phillis Wheatley's life?

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