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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 is the occasion bringing everyone together within the poem "Homegoing, A.D. by Kima Jones?
(a) A wedding anniversary.
(b) A birth.
(c) A wedding.
(d) A funeral.

2. While Jesmyn Ward's father was born in Pass Christian, Mississippi, to what California city had he moved as a teenager in 1969?
(a) Oakland.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Vallejo.
(d) Los Angeles.

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

4. A 2016 joint report by the NAACP and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund states that the Republicans' plan to emphasize identification requirements would adversely affect how many African-American voters?
(a) Six million.
(b) Ten million.
(c) Eight million.
(d) Three million.

5. What major event happened upon Phillis Wheatley's return to America from London?
(a) She found that her husband had died in her absence.
(b) She ran away from her master's home.
(c) She was freed.
(d) She gave birth to her third child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What company did Jesmyn Ward use in order to obtain a report of her genetic ancestry?

2. How does the author of "Lonely in America" say she would likely have handled being enslaved?

3. What distinction does a senior editor announce as applying to the author of "The Weight" during the first week of his internship?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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