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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 from Chapter 5 refers to humor or frivolity, especially in the treatment of a serious matter?
(a) Cultivation.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Levity.
(d) Irony.

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

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

4. In Chapter 3, the author writes, "A friend tells you he has seen a photograph of you on the Internet and he wants to know why you look so" what?
(a) "Happy."
(b) "Scared."
(c) "Cerebral."
(d) "Angry."

5. What is the name of Serena Williams's sister?
(a) Marie Williams.
(b) Angela Williams.
(c) Sarah Williams.
(d) Venus Williams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author describe the man at the cash register asking her in Chapter 3?

2. What does the "woman with multiple degrees" say she didn't know black women could get, in Chapter 3?

3. The author writes in Chapter 3, "After considering Butler's remarks, you begin to understand yourself as rendered" what?

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

5. What does the author claim that moaning elicits in Chapter 4?

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