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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does the author use in Chapter 5 to mean a thing that blocks one's way?
(a) Attribute.
(b) Obstacle.
(c) Reverie.
(d) Protagonist.

2. What does the author describe her new therapist specializing in, in Chapter 1?
(a) Family counseling.
(b) Trauma counseling.
(c) Anxiety disorders.
(d) Marriage counseling.

3. 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."

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

5. 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 football."
(b) "Watching tennis."
(c) "Reading the newspaper."
(d) "Writing."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author describe metaphorically in Chapter 5 as "well-oiled doors opening and closing between intention, gesture"?

2. 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?

3. What color is described repeatedly throughout Chapter 5?

4. What does the author claim "won't attach you to anything no matter how depleted you feel" in Chapter 5?

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

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