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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 hearing two men outside a conference room in Chapter 3, when one says to the other that "being around black people is like" what?
(a) "Watching a foreign film without translation."
(b) "Being amongst fellow compatriots."
(c) "Being in a pool of fish."
(d) "Wandering alone in a desert."

2. What radio host is cited by the author in Chapter 3 for insulting a women's basketball team with racist slurs in Chapter 3?
(a) Alex Jones.
(b) Don Imus.
(c) Glenn Ligon.
(d) Howard Stern.

3. 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 alone."
(c) "You were the sun."
(d) "You were nothing."

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 justice."
(b) "To be found."
(c) "For history."
(d) "To be loved."

5. The author asks of the reader in Chapter 6 of the victims of Hurricane Katrina, "Have you seen their" what?
(a) "Destiny."
(b) "Faces."
(c) "Loss."
(d) "Homes."

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author describe rushing to meet a friend in the beginning of Chapter 3?

2. In Chapter 5, the author writes of a "Blue ceiling calling a body into the midst of" what?

3. In Chapter 3, the author writes, "A friend tells you he has seen a photograph of you on the Internet and he wants to know why you look so" what?

4. The author writes in Chapter 3, "After considering Butler's remarks, you begin to understand yourself as rendered" what?

5. In "Long Form Birth Certificate" in Chapter 6, the author writes, "All living is listening for" what?

(see the answer key)

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