The Fire This Time Test | Final Test - Hard

Jesmyn Ward
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 190 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Fire This Time Test | Final Test - Hard

Jesmyn Ward
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 190 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. When Kiese Laymon was busy analyzing the Outkast song "Wailin'," what was he supposed to be doing instead?

2. What belief did Kiese Laymon's grandmother hold that he points to as the only reason he is alive?

3. What author does the poem "Queries of Unrest" reference in its dedication?

4. What belief does Mitchell Jackson hold that he underscores by calling it his "beating heart" (179)?

5. To what city did the author of "Black and Blue" move in 1996 in order to attend college?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Emily Raboteau say she wishes to distinguish her role as a mother from both types of mothers depicted in the widely-circulated comic entitled "Still Two Americas"?

2. What does Kevin Young write is one of the best things about being black?

3. How does the poem "Queries of Unrest" connect to the part of the collection that it opens, entitled Reckoning?

4. What does the author of "Composite Pops" say that a boy must do if he is "not blessed with a father or gifted with a dynamic stand-in" (180)?

5. Why does Garnette Cadogan hold out hope that he will not encounter the same problems while walking in New York City that he had while walking in New Orleans?

6. At the start of the essay "The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning," why do the two women talking about one's recent arrival of a son laugh when the new mother says her first thought had been how she could get her baby boy out of America?

7. How does Kevin Young, the author of the essay "Blacker Than Thou" support his point that similarities and solidarity among black people are more about culture than about physical appearances?

8. What contrast does the author of "Black and Blue" set up by using a quote from Fats Waller and a quote by Walt Whitman prior to the body of his essay?

9. What is People's Justice and what is the organization's goal?

10. What event does the author of "Composite Pops" name as the one that taught him that he must be able to save himself?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of the poems contained in The Fire This Time and write an essay comparing and contrasting their respective messages and literary techniques.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Many different areas of the United States are discussed within the works included in The Fire This Time. Discuss the sense of place contained in three particular essays and how the discussion of the sense of place helps each author further his or her message regarding race in America.

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