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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Besides Phillis Wheatley, at least how many other slaves did her master own during his lifetime?
(a) 6.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 12.

3. 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?
(a) To publish a rebuttal to
(b) To discover more about her own identity.
(c) To write a series of poems about Phillis Wheatley.
(d) To write a collection of essays about freed slaves.

4. What is the name of the editor who curated the works in The Fire This Time?
(a) Jessica Walsh.
(b) Jasmine Walker.
(c) Jesmyn Ward.
(d) James Thurber.

5. What emotion does Jesmyn Ward say is directed toward her by the majority of Americans and has become her dark twin?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Disdain.
(c) Pity.
(d) Contempt.

6. What term did the historians referred to in "Where Do We Go from Here?" use to describe the last reversal of African-American advancement?
(a) The Fatwa.
(b) The Nadir.
(c) The Chasm.
(d) The Fakir.

7. What topic is NOT listed among the issues that the author of "Lonely in America" feels unable to fixate upon in order to dispel her sense of loneliness?
(a) Racism.
(b) Poverty.
(c) The failures of the federal government.
(d) Friendship.

8. What object does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones smell that lets her know they are close to their destination?
(a) The popping corn.
(b) The paper mill.
(c) The sea air.
(d) The magnolia tree.

9. 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.

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

11. Whose original literary work inspired the title of The Fire This Time?
(a) James Baldwin.
(b) Langston Hughes.
(c) Phyllis Wheatley.
(d) Ralph Ellison.

12. In what New Orleans area cemetery is the author of "Lonely in America's" family buried?
(a) Greenwood Cemetery.
(b) Calvary Cemetery.
(c) Holt Cemetery.
(d) Normandy Cemetery.

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

14. In what city does the author of "The Weight" meet his friend in order to visit the house in which James Baldwin died?
(a) Paris.
(b) Nice.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Lisbon.

15. What was the first name of Phillis Wheatley's mistress?
(a) Clementine.
(b) Melanie.
(c) Susannah.
(d) Savannah.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main pastime depicted within the poem "The Tradition"?

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?

3. In a letter from Phillis Wheatley to the artist Obour Tanner, Wheatley relates the death of her mistress, saying that her mistress had treated her less like a "servant" (67) and more like a what?

4. 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?

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

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