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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author claims in Chapter 5 that "the conversations you have with your eyes translate" what?
(a) "A white cloud of rain."
(b) "A desperation that you cannot name."
(c) "A shiny skyscraper."
(d) "Everything and nothing."

2. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Everyone understood you to be suffering and still everyone thought you thought" what?
(a) "You were invisible."
(b) "You were the sun."
(c) "You were alone."
(d) "You were nothing."

3. Rankine writes in Chapter 5, "You could build a world out of need or you could" do what?
(a) "Hold everything black and see."
(b) "Walk forward without looking."
(c) "Stand in silence."
(d) "Lose need altogether."

4. The author writes in Chapter 5, "You begin to move around in search of the steps it will take before you are thrown back into your own body, back into your own need" for what?
(a) "For history."
(b) "To be found."
(c) "To be loved."
(d) "For justice."

5. What does the ocean do regarding the "blues it can't absorb" in Chapter 5?
(a) It blushes.
(b) It flees.
(c) It hides.
(d) It shivers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the "woman with multiple degrees" say she didn't know black women could get, in Chapter 3?

2. In a poetic monologue in Chapter 6, the author writes, "The hearts of my brothers are" what?

3. On what date was James Craig Anderson murdered?

4. What word in Chapter 4 refers to a contemplative person?

5. What word from Chapter 3 means lacking normal clarity or intelligibility in speech or thought?

(see the answer key)

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