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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary word employed by the author in Chapter 5 refers to a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers to either the participants or something else?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Protagonist.
(c) Pronoun.
(d) Gerund.

2. What does the author claim "isn't a cure for feeling, it is a clean displacement of effort, will, and disappointment" in Chapter 4?
(a) "Watching tennis."
(b) "Reading the newspaper."
(c) "Watching football."
(d) "Writing."

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

4. What phrase does the author describe trying to stamp from her mind in Chapter 6?
(a) "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
(b) "Faith, not fear."
(c) "A cautionary warning."
(d) "An ideal to attain."

5. How does the author respond when a friend says in Chapter 3, "You are always on sabbatical"?
(a) "Why not?"
(b) "I am not."
(c) "I've never taken sabbatical."
(d) "Easy."

Short Answer Questions

1. The author concludes Chapter 3 by saying that what "shouldn't be an ambition"?

2. The author writes in Chapter 5, "Someone claimed we should use our skin as" what?

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

4. What does the author's friend say when the author is questioned by the cashier in Chapter 3?

5. What does the real estate woman repeatedly say to the author's friend when she is showing the author her house in Chapter 3?

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