What question did the eighteen men ask Phillis Weatley when she went to see them?

The questions that the Bostonian men asked Wheatley are not recorded. She was, however, posed with questions that would prove her ability to write poetry.

It is not known what questions were asked of Phillis Wheatley on that day, but it is known that she did pass the exam. Proof of her vindication is the publication of her book Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773) along with the open letter by John
Wheatley and the prominent gentlemen of Massachusetts Bay Colony that are listed by name to notify readers that the poems within the book were written by “a young Negro Girl, who was but a few Years since, brought an uncultivated Barbarian from Africa, and
has ever since been, and now is, under the Disadvantage of serving as a Slave in a Family in this Town. She has been examined by some of the best judges, and is thought qualified to write them” (Preface). Many children will not know who Phillis Wheatley is, and it is unfortunate that Clinton did not include at least one of Wheatley’s poems to demonstrate what the test was about.