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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 title of Phillis Wheatley's most often-anthologized poem?
(a) "Upon the Burning of Our House."
(b) "On Being Brought from Africa to America."
(c) "The Spider and the Fly."
(d) "To My Dear and Loving Husband."

2. What type of internship had the author of "The Weight" been completing when he had first fallen wholly in the love with James Baldwin's works?
(a) A carpentry internship.
(b) A publishing internship.
(c) A reporting internship.
(d) A professorial internship.

3. 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"?
(a) Great-aunt Louise.
(b) Uncle Chester.
(c) Aunt Lou.
(d) Grandmama.

4. What two reptiles are the source of the danger during the final scene of Kima Jones's prose poem "Homegoing, A.D."?
(a) Crocodiles and Gila monsters.
(b) Copperhead snakes and alligators.
(c) Poison Dart frogs and salamanders.
(d) Brown rattlesnakes and chameleons.

5. The author of "White Rage" states that while before the Great Recession, white Americans had four times more wealth than black Americans, by 2010 the gap had increased to how many times?
(a) Six times.
(b) Five times.
(c) Eight times.
(d) Ten times.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What landmark could the author of "The Weight" see outside of the interns' office window?

4. What other types of work had the editor published before curating The Fire This Time?

5. At the end of her essay "Cracking the Code," Jesmyn Ward states that she imagines that a longing for what element had been a part of all of her ancestors' lives?

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