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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the author describe the passenger in her car telling her in Chapter 1?
(a) "That his work was examining race in America."
(b) "He didn't care for his family or his friends."
(c) "That his dean is making him hire a person of color when there are so many great writers out there."
(d) "That his wife is leaving him for the dean with whom she's been having an affair."

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

4. How old does the author describe the school girl in Chapter 1?
(a) 12.
(b) 16.
(c) 9.
(d) 6.

5. What does the author claim the world says not to wear in the house in Chapter 4?
(a) Gloves.
(b) Sunglasses.
(c) Hats.
(d) Shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the teacher described in Chapter 1?

2. 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?

3. What word from Chapter 3 means lacking normal clarity or intelligibility in speech or thought?

4. What ocean does the author describe "breaking on our heads" in Chapter 5?

5. What word used by the author in Chapter 5 refers to a thing that represents or stands for something else?

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