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

2. What was the song-and-dance caricature of blacks that developed later into the term "Jim Crow" in referring to African Americans?
(a) "Dance Jim Crow."
(b) "Black Jim Crow."
(c) "Fighting Jim Crow."
(d) "Jump Jim Crow."

3. What word from Chapter 3 means lacking normal clarity or intelligibility in speech or thought?
(a) Astute.
(b) Incoherent.
(c) Articulate.
(d) Inexorable.

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

5. What does the word "denigrate" mean in Chapter 3?
(a) To elevate someone.
(b) To leave a situation.
(c) To criticize unfairly.
(d) To imply.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author describe buying from the cashier when out with her friend in Chapter 3?

2. When was Trayvon Martin born?

3. What does "FEMA" stand for?

4. In Chapter 3, the author writes, "Someone in the audience asks the man promoting his new book on humor what makes something funny. His answer is what you expect." What is the answer he gives?

5. Chapter 6 is described by the author as a script for what?

(see the answer key)

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