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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 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 blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow."
(c) "A car rolling down a mountain."
(d) "A sharp arrow shooting backward."

2. What women's basketball team was insulted by the commentary of a radio host in 2007 during a discussion of the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship?
(a) The Rutgers University women's basketball team.
(b) The Yale University women's basketball team.
(c) The Princeton University women's basketball team.
(d) The Harvard University women's basketball team.

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

4. In "Long Form Birth Certificate" in Chapter 6, the author writes, "All living is listening for" what?
(a) "The madman."
(b) "The world of evil."
(c) "A throat to open."
(d) "History."

5. What does the author describe the storm carrying her through in Chapter 5?
(a) The desert.
(b) The forest.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Dusk.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date was James Craig Anderson murdered?

2. The author writes in Chapter 6, "In a landscape drawn from an ocean bed, you can't drive yourself" what?

3. What does the ocean do regarding the "blues it can't absorb" in Chapter 5?

4. The author writes in Chapter 4 that the past has "turned your flesh into its own" what?

5. What does the world say about memory and the past, according to the author in Chapter 4?

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