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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the author when she describes a man showing her a picture of his wife in Chapter 5?
(a) In a convenient store.
(b) In her friend's house.
(c) In a seminar meeting.
(d) In the bar of a restaurant.

2. What word from Chapter 5 means censored or obscured?
(a) Impelled.
(b) Depleted.
(c) Compelled.
(d) Redacted.

3. What does the author tell the reader not to lean against in Chapter 5?
(a) The judge.
(b) The fence.
(c) The wallpaper.
(d) The peeling paint.

4. What color is described repeatedly throughout Chapter 5?
(a) Red.
(b) Green.
(c) Blue.
(d) Yellow.

5. Rankine opens Chapter 4 with the statement that "To live through the days sometimes you moan like" what?
(a) "Children."
(b) "Deer."
(c) "Slaves."
(d) "Sheep."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author describe happening at the drugstore in Chapter 5?

2. What phrase is repeated in the second of the prints that is displayed in Chapter 3?

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

4. What radio host is cited by the author in Chapter 3 for insulting a women's basketball team with racist slurs in Chapter 3?

5. In Chapter 6, the author writes, "He said, I don't know what the water wanted. It wanted to show you" what?

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