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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 5 refers to a state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts?
(a) Levity.
(b) Epistolary.
(c) Compulsion.
(d) Reverie.

2. Where was James Craig Anderson murdered?
(a) Little Rock, Arkansas.
(b) Jackson, Mississippi.
(c) Sarasota, Florida.
(d) Oxford, Mississippi.

3. What word from Chapter 6 means to represent something as being beautiful?
(a) Redact.
(b) Reverie.
(c) Aestheticize.
(d) Inflect.

4. What word from Chapter 4 refers to a sentimental longing for the past?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Recompense.
(c) Cultivation.
(d) Nostalgia.

5. The author describes "the past" as a life sentence and uses what metaphor to describe it in Chapter 5?
(a) "A pillow where you lay your head."
(b) "A car rolling down a mountain."
(c) "A blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."
(d) "A sharp arrow shooting backward."

Short Answer Questions

1. What phrase does the author describe trying to stamp from her mind in Chapter 6?

2. The author writes in Chapter 4 that the "sigh is the pathway to" what?

3. What is the narrator instructed to do after being fingerprinted and stripped in "Stop-and-Frisk" in Chapter 6?

4. What word from Chapter 5 refers to humor or frivolity, especially in the treatment of a serious matter?

5. In Chapter 6, the author writes, "The days of our childhood together were steep steps into a" what?

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