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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what year did Phillis Wheatley sail to London for a six week period in order to promote her poetry?
2. Who was the author of Memoir and Poems of Phyllis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave?
3. What are the estimates regarding how often an African-American is now killed by police within the United States, circa 2018?
4. 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?
5. How many years apart does the author of "The Weight" say his grandfather's age and James Baldwin's age had been?
Short Essay Questions
1. For what purpose had Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, the author of "The Weight," come to London just before her acquaintance convinces her to visit James Baldwin's former house in France?
2. 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?
3. How does Honoree Fanonne Jeffers's interpretation of "On Being Brought From Africa to America" differ from those of many scholars?
4. How does the author of "Where Do We Go from Here" evoke feelings of hope in the reader at the end of her essay?
5. What stories and experiences does Jesmyn Ward provide to the reader in order to demonstrate the depth of her identification with the black identity?
6. In her essay entitled "White Rage," what distinction does Carol Anderson make between white rage and black rage?
7. 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?
8. How did a quote within James Baldwin's book The Fire Next Time inspire Jesmyn ward to put together her own collection to create The Fire This Time?
9. What is the main claim being made regarding a Nadir within the essay "Where Do We Go from Here"?
10. To what conclusion does Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah ultimately come to about the desire to "preserve things" (31)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The collection focuses on police brutality as one of the major injustices inflicted upon African-Americans. Write an essay analyzing at least two of the authors' rhetoric and attitudes concerning police brutality and how their treatments of the topic fit into the context of the other themes regarding race contained in the collection.
Essay Topic 2
Determine the most prominent message inherent in Emily Raboteau's essay, "Know Your Rights!" and prove your claim about her message using concrete details from the essay.
Essay Topic 3
Several of the works within The Fire This Time focus on family relationships. Choose three of these works and discuss how they work together to send a larger message about race and family across the collection.
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