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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the word "iterate" mean in Chapter 4?
(a) To perform or utter repeatedly.
(b) To deplete.
(c) To conjure or invent.
(d) To deceive or lie.

2. The author concludes Chapter 3 by saying that what "shouldn't be an ambition"?
(a) "Just getting along."
(b) "Justice."
(c) "Reexamining history."
(d) "New paths to progress."

3. What does the word "fabricate" mean in Chapter 4?
(a) To deceive or lie.
(b) To deplete.
(c) To sew.
(d) To conjure or invent.

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

5. What does the world say about memory and the past, according to the author in Chapter 4?
(a) To forget it.
(b) To question it.
(c) To analyze it.
(d) To embrace it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from Chapter 5 means relating or denoting the writing of letters?

2. What does the author describe pouring three bowls of in Chapter 5?

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

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. 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?

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