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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. At what age did the poet Phillis Wheatley die?
(a) 42.
(b) 28.
(c) 38.
(d) 34.

4. What is the name of the U.S. Senator who is famous for opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1957 "so strenuously that he conducted the longest lone filibuster ever" for over 24 straight hours?
(a) Thomas Carper.
(b) Trent Lott.
(c) Strom Thurmond.
(d) Benjamin Cardin.

5. Who was the author of Memoir and Poems of Phyllis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave?
(a) Margaretta Matilda Odell.
(b) Marie Ellen Magdalena.
(c) Jane Augusten Burroughs.
(d) Mary Margaret Johann.

6. What two adjectives does the author of the "The Weight" use to describe the whiteness of the magazine's offices?
(a) Stately and grand.
(b) Blinding and sterile.
(c) Serene and sterile.
(d) Stark and futuristic.

7. In the poem "Homegoing, AD" by Kima Jones, what kind of state does the narrator say she found out North Carolina is?
(a) Wide.
(b) Dry.
(c) Long.
(d) Flat.

8. 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) 99% Caucasian.
(b) 99% African-American.
(c) 48% African American and 52% Caucasian.
(d) 23% African-American, 48% Caucasian, and 29% Native American.

9. 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 reporting internship.
(b) A professorial internship.
(c) A carpentry internship.
(d) A publishing internship.

10. What adjective does the writer of "The Weight" use to describe the black narrative within the United States?
(a) Linear.
(b) Fractured.
(c) Problematic.
(d) Quixotic.

11. 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 magnolia tree.
(d) The sea air.

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

13. 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 South.
(c) The West.
(d) The North.

14. What finding in the results of Jesmyn Ward's genetic testing results shocked her?
(a) Her ancestry is 68% European.
(b) Her ancestry is over 70% African.
(c) Her ancestry is only 33% African.
(d) Her ancestry is 42% Native American.

15. The author of "'The Dear Pledges of Our Love'": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" states that most of the information about Phillis Wheatley comes from a book published how many years after the poet's death?
(a) 50.
(b) 25.
(c) 75.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What are the estimates regarding how often an African-American is now killed by police within the United States, circa 2018?

3. 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?

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

5. How often do historians say lynchings of African-Americans occurred in the early decades of the twentieth century?

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