![]() |
Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
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. Once the author of "The Weight" stopped reading James Baldwin's works in order to separate his own work from that of James Baldwin's, what is NOT one author he mentions reading voraciously?
(a) Ralph Ellison.
(b) Henry Dumas.
(c) Bell hooks.
(d) Sergei Dovlatov.
2. The author of "White Rage" states that the case of Connick vs. Thompson ruled that it was what "for a city prosecutor's staff to hide evidence that exonerated a black man who was rotting on death row for 14 years" (87)?
(a) Illegal.
(b) Unconstitutional.
(c) Justified.
(d) Legal.
3. What adjective does the writer of "The Weight" use to describe the black narrative within the United States?
(a) Fractured.
(b) Linear.
(c) Quixotic.
(d) Problematic.
4. What two reptiles are the source of the danger during the final scene of Kima Jones's prose poem "Homegoing, A.D."?
(a) Brown rattlesnakes and chameleons.
(b) Copperhead snakes and alligators.
(c) Poison Dart frogs and salamanders.
(d) Crocodiles and Gila monsters.
5. 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?
(a) 8 million.
(b) Six million.
(c) 1 million.
(d) Two million.
Short Answer Questions
1. What other types of work had the editor published before curating The Fire This Time?
2. Which family member's house in New Orleans had been destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and was subsequently visited by the author of "Lonely in America"?
3. In what New Orleans area cemetery is the author of "Lonely in America's" family buried?
4. What two adjectives does the author of the "The Weight" use to describe the whiteness of the magazine's offices?
5. In what year was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?
This section contains 300 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) |
![]() |