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

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) 23% African-American, 48% Caucasian, and 29% Native American.
(c) 99% African-American.
(d) 99% Caucasian.

2. How many books of Phillis Wheatley's poetry were published during her lifetime?
(a) 2.
(b) None.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

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

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

5. 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)?
(a) Wave.
(b) Jump up and down.
(c) Run fast.
(d) Lie down.

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

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

8. What was the name of Phillis Wheatley's husband, who is being defended in the essay "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband"?
(a) Jacob Wheatley.
(b) John Peters.
(c) John Wheatley.
(d) James Jackson.

9. To what area of the United States does the author of "Lonely in America" say that her "cultural memory of slavery" is relegated?
(a) The East.
(b) The North.
(c) The West.
(d) The South.

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

11. What is the main pastime depicted within the poem "The Tradition"?
(a) Playing the piano.
(b) Playing baseball.
(c) Going for ice cream.
(d) Gardening.

12. What is the name of the era in which African-Americans made leaps in advancement just after the end of slavery?
(a) Revitalization.
(b) Reconstruction.
(c) Renaissance.
(d) Restoration.

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

14. What other types of work had the editor published before curating The Fire This Time?
(a) Newspaper articles and novels.
(b) Novels and memoirs.
(c) Novels and short stories.
(d) Poetry and short stories.

15. What is the name of the college that the author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" attended within a rural Alabama town?
(a) Affinity College.
(b) Carlsbad College.
(c) Trinity College.
(d) Talladega College.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what New Orleans area cemetery is the author of "Lonely in America's" family buried?

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

3. What kind of trees does the speaker of the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones see that let her know they are close to their destination?

4. 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?

5. In what state did the author's mother in "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" grow up, ensconced in poverty?

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