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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Five times.
(b) Eight times.
(c) Six times.
(d) Ten times.

3. 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) Crocodiles and Gila monsters.
(c) Poison Dart frogs and salamanders.
(d) Brown rattlesnakes and chameleons.

4. 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 father.
(c) Her mother and her sister.
(d) Her father and her uncle.

5. In what year was Trayvon Martin killed by a police officer?
(a) 2014.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2013.
(d) 2011.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two adjectives does the author of the "The Weight" use to describe the whiteness of the magazine's offices?

2. While Jesmyn Ward's father was born in Pass Christian, Mississippi, to what California city had he moved as a teenager in 1969?

3. 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?

4. In what year did Phillis Wheatley sail to London for a six week period in order to promote her poetry?

5. What finding in the results of Jesmyn Ward's genetic testing results shocked her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What stories and experiences does Jesmyn Ward provide to the reader in order to demonstrate the depth of her identification with the black identity?

2. How does Carol Anderson refute the idea that the Brown vs. Board of Education decision was a complete triumph for black advancement in America?

3. What proof, if any, did Honoree Fanonne Jeffers discover through her research that Phillis Wheatley's 1834 biographer had been related to Susannah Wheatley, Phillis Wheatley's mistress?

4. In what ways does the author of "The Dear Pledges of Our Love: A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband" demonstrate how difficult it can be to extricate oneself from the biases present within the American culture's views of black people?

5. In what condition does Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah find James Baldwin's former house in France when she arrives there?

6. How does the author of "Where Do We Go from Here" evoke feelings of hope in the reader at the end of her essay?

7. In her essay entitled "White Rage," what distinction does Carol Anderson make between white rage and black rage?

8. What is Wendy S. Walters's central goal within the narrative of her memoir "Lonely in America" and from what source does she draw the idea for this goal?

9. At the time of Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah's visit to Nice, how had her relationship with money recently changed?

10. What are the elements of James Baldwin's life and character that Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah describes as being off-putting to her at one point in her life?

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